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Ruby Ruby Collections Build a Grocery List Program Method Returns with Hashes and Arrays

unable to understand what i am doing wrong

i have title and grocery list in my hash and I am getting an error

shopping_list.rb
def create_shopping_list
  hash = { 'title' => "Grocery list " , 'items' => Array.new }
  return hash
end

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Too much unnecessary code.

def create_shopping_list
  { 'title' => "Grocery List", 'items' => [] }
end

thanks Maciej