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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Nick Riddell
Nick Riddell
1,594 Points
Posted by Nick Riddell
Nick Riddell
1,594 Points

I am stuck on the has_value? method challenge. The error message states that the has_value? method was not called.

I am new to coding and at a loss as to where I have gone wrong.

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

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hey Nick,

You're on the right track, and have checked the has_value() correctly, but the challenge wants you to add the food = true to the hash, whereas you have re-declared the entire hash.

Your second line of code should be

grocery_item["food"] = true

To review how to add key/values to a ruby hash, Jason covers this back in the first video of this section.

Keep Coding! :)