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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Sara Brothers
Sara Brothers
7,341 Points

Ruby Hash

I am confused please help

hash.rb 
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }

1 Answer

Daniel Johnson
Daniel Johnson
104,132 Points
Daniel Johnson
Daniel Johnson
104,132 Points

For the first part of the challenge, create an if statement to check if the value Bread is in the grocery_item hash. If it is then create a new food item with the value of true. For the second part of the challenge, set the values at item in the grocery_item hash equal to a new grocery_list array.

hash.rb 
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }

# check if the grocery_item hash contains a value called "Bread"
if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
  grocery_item.store("food", true)
  # you could also use bracket notation like this instead...
  # grocery_item["food"] = true
end

# add the values at item in grocery_item to new grocery_list array
grocery_list = grocery_item.values_at("item")