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Ruby Ruby Booleans Build a Simple Todo List Program Instantiation and Methods

Jared Armes
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Jared Armes
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Posted by Jared Armes
Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,302 Points

Ruby Booleans - Challenge Task 4 of 4: Can't append to array

I am having some issues with the syntax of this challenge. I know that I will need to initiate a new instance of the TodoItem class, and assign it to the argument. I just don't know how to append this data into the todo_items array. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

todo_list.rb 
class TodoList
  attr_reader :name, :todo_items

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
    @todo_items = []
  end

  def add_item(item)
    item = TodoItem.new
    todo_items.push(item)
  end

end

1 Answer

Caleb Kleveter
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Caleb Kleveter
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Caleb Kleveter
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 Points

Really close, remember to instantiate item and push that to the array. Watch the previous video at about 1min.

  def add_item(item)
    todo_items.push(TodoItem.new(item))
  end
Jared Armes
Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,302 Points
Jared Armes
Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,302 Points

Awesome... Thank you so much for the quick and thorough reply! This is why Treehouse rocks.