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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Will Long
Will Long
5,449 Points

what is wrong with my program

grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company" } grocery_item.has_value?("Bread") if grocery_item.has_value? ("Bread") grocery_item = { "item" => "Bread", "quantity" => 1, "brand" => "Treehouse Bread Company", "food" => true } end

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

1 Answer

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

For this challenge, you are supposed to add a key-value pair to the Hash if the Hash contained value "Bread"; you don't need to re-assign an entire new Hash to the grocery_item variable.

if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
  grocery_item["food"] = true
end