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Ruby Ruby Collections Build a Grocery List Program Working with Hashes That Contain Arrays

Posted by Leonardo Escalante
Leonardo Escalante
3,190 Points

The push method in ruby

I am having some problems with the sintaxis of this code , please tell me what i'm doing wrong. Thanks.

grocery_list = { 'title' => 'Grocery List', 'items' => [] } grocery_item = { 'title' => 'Bread', 'quantity' => 1 } grocery_list['items'].push{grocery_item}

shopping_list.rb 
grocery_list = { 'title' => 'Grocery List', 'items' => [] }
grocery_item = { 'title' => 'Bread', 'quantity' => 1 }
grocery_list['items'].push{grocery_item}

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hey Leonardo,

You've pretty much got it, except for the type of 'brackets' after push. Remember push is a method, and therefore uses parenthesis, not curly braces. Just change those and you're good. 

grocery_list['items'].push(grocery_item)

Keep Coding! :)