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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Dino Tudor
Dino Tudor
1,767 Points
Posted by Dino Tudor
Dino Tudor
1,767 Points

Please help to set a new key and value to the hash in this quiz.

I tried two ways to solve this quiz. At the console in workspaces the first worked fine, the second didn't show any error messages. Please help me to figure out this quiz. Thanks!

hash.rb 
# this way it the key"food" does not have the value "true"

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



#second try, and i still can't get the key and value into the hash


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

1 Answer

Ian Bowers
Ian Bowers
3,665 Points
Ian Bowers
Ian Bowers
3,665 Points

I think "true" in the description is referring to true and not a string of letters "true". Try removing the quotes and see what happens.

Dino Tudor
Dino Tudor
1,767 Points
Dino Tudor
Dino Tudor
1,767 Points

Thanks Ian! That's it!