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Ruby Ruby Loops Build a Simple Contact List Hash and Array Iteration

Ferre Mekelenkamp
Ferre Mekelenkamp
11,835 Points
Posted by Ferre Mekelenkamp
Ferre Mekelenkamp
11,835 Points

I get an error, but not sure what I'm doing wrong!

Hey guys,

It's quite an easy task I have to do, but I seem to make a mistake and I can't figure out what that is...

Thanks in advance!

Cheers, Ferre

contact_list.rb 
contact_list = [
  {"name" => "Jason", "phone_number" => "123"},
  {"name" => "Nick", "phone_number" => "456"}
]

contact_list.each do |contact|
  puts contact_list["name"]
  puts contact_list["phone_number"]
end
Ferre Mekelenkamp
Ferre Mekelenkamp
11,835 Points
Ferre Mekelenkamp
Ferre Mekelenkamp
11,835 Points

Oh this is the task btw: Using the each method, iterate over the contact_list array. Assign each array item to the local variable contact in the block and print out the value of the name and phone_number keys.

1 Answer

Kurt L
Kurt L
22,856 Points
Kurt L
Kurt L
22,856 Points

You're passing in contact to the block, but inside your block, you wrote contact_list. You don't want to access the contact list here. Try changing your two instances of contact_list to contact.

Ferre Mekelenkamp
Ferre Mekelenkamp
11,835 Points
Ferre Mekelenkamp
Ferre Mekelenkamp
11,835 Points

Oh haha that was stupid!

Thanks a lot!