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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Keys

jakefish
jakefish
7,961 Points
Posted by jakefish
jakefish
7,961 Points

I am struggling with setting the new variable, "food" to be true

How do I go about doing the second part of this challenge? Do I need an if statement?

hash.rb 
hash = { "name" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "calories" => 100 }
hash.has_key?("calories")
hash.store("name", food)
Sanjay Patel
Sanjay Patel
12,501 Points

Hi Jake,

Yes, you want to use an if statement here. You also might be getting tripped on the "new variable" part. food should be a new variable, not a value stored in the hash. 

hash = { "name" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "calories" => 100 }
# check for the key "calories" in hash
if hash.has_key?("calories")
  # assign true to a new variable named food
  food = true
end