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Ruby Ruby Loops Build a Simple Contact List Assigning Hash Values From Methods

Mateusz Hyla
Mateusz Hyla
4,658 Points
Posted by Mateusz Hyla
Mateusz Hyla
4,658 Points

I dont know why my code cant pass challange. Its about hashes and arrays

Hi

I write a code you can see in this post. I completely don't understand text of task in this challange. Maybe because I am not native English or maybe there are mistakes in this text.

I tried to do what I could but there is still error. I dont understand this error because its written that contact['name'] hash doesnt have return value of method get_name.

I made a localhost test and it has that value.

It would be a much much better if Treehouse would construct more clear task texts and if there would be an error it could exactly say whats wrong becase now it is like 1=2 for me.

Can anyone help please in solving that :-).

Cheers

contact.rb 
contact_list = []

contact = {"name" => "", "phone_number" => "" }

def get_name
  return "ABC"
end

item = get_name
contact['name'] = item

3 Answers

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Assign the value of the key name to the return value of the method get_name() in the contact hash. Assume that get_name() returns a string.

I believe that the challenge description is a bit ambiguous here; but all it asks you to do is to assign the return value of get_name() method call to the "name" key, assuming get_name() is already defined.

contact_list = []

contact = {"name" => get_name(), "phone_number" => "" }

That's all for this part of the challenge. Hope it helps.

Mateusz Hyla
Mateusz Hyla
4,658 Points
Mateusz Hyla
Mateusz Hyla
4,658 Points

Hey

Thank you William. Almost always the simples solutions are the best and I forgot about that. But still I think Treehouse could write that challange more understandable :p.

Big thanks for help.

Cheers ^_^

Anterrio Howard
Anterrio Howard
2,625 Points
Anterrio Howard
Anterrio Howard
2,625 Points

Here is the answer:

contact['phone_number'] = get_phone_number