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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Jonas Stutler
Jonas Stutler
1,317 Points

Using the has_value? method, check to see if the grocery_item hash has a value called "Bread". If it does, set a new key

I have absolutely no idea what to do. I've researched it and tried everything from grocery_item[:food = "true"] and MANY variations of that. PLEASE HELP

hash.rb 
grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" }
grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
grocery_item[:food == true]

1 Answer

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

Hey Jonas,

You're close, you just need the proper syntax to add the "food" = true

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

grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
grocery_item["food"] = true                #adds the key "food" to the hash with a value of True

Hope this helps. Adding keys to hashes is covered in the first video of the course if you would like to review.

Keep Coding! :)