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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by andynguyen9
andynguyen9
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has_value

grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" } if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread") hash = {"food" => true} end

Q: Why the above code doesn;t work?

hash.rb 
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }
if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
  hash =  {"food" => true}
end

1 Answer

Scott Wyngarden
PLUS
Scott Wyngarden
Courses Plus Student 16,700 Points
Scott Wyngarden
Scott Wyngarden
Courses Plus Student 16,700 Points

If you're looking to add the key/value pair of {"food" => true} to the grocery_item hash, change the bit that says 

hash =  {"food" => true}

to either

grocery_item["food"] = true

or

grocery_item = grocery_item.merge("food" => true)

or

grocery_item.merge!("food" => true)