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

Posted by Zachary Dunn
Zachary Dunn
6,557 Points

Quack Quack?

What?

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

1 Answer

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

HI Zachery,

Please add question next time to help us what's the problem is.

Question is 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.

Hint---> Local variable called Contact and then print out name & phone number as Keys.

contact_list = [
  {"name" => "Jason", "phone_number" => "123"},
  {"name" => "Nick", "phone_number" => "456"}
]
contact_list.each do |contact|
  puts contact["name"]
  puts contact["phone_number"]
end

Quack!!! :smiley:

Zachary Dunn
Zachary Dunn
6,557 Points

so the "Assign" is the verb of what happens during the "each" method? thank you, i haven't been this frustrated on anything in years

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Just keep practice with Variables things to store a value and assign a name to that value, you will get grasp later. :)