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Ruby Ruby Collections Build a Grocery List Program Create a Method That Returns a Hash

Posted by Joe Quattrone
Joe Quattrone
195 Points

what does this error mean? Bummer: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - 1

Don't know whats wrong with my code or why I got this error.

shopping_list.rb 
def create_shopping_list
  print "What is the list name?"
  name = gets.chomp

  hash = { "name" => name, "items" => Array.new}
  return hash  
end

def add_list_item
  print "What is the item called?"
  item_name = gets.chomp

  hash = {"name" => name}
  return hash  
end

list = create_shopping_list()
puts list.inspect

1 Answer

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 27,547 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 27,547 Points

This is pretty simple... for that challenge, all you are supposed to do is create a function that returns an EMPTY hash.

The way the code is tested, it thinks the gets.chomp is trying to load from a non-existent file.