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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Niki Torres
Niki Torres
1,026 Points

What's wrong with my code?

It keeps telling me that "food" does not appear on the grocery_item has as "true". But I'm looking at the code and I think I got it correctly. What am I doing wrong? Been staring at this code for awhile.

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

if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread") == true
  grocery_item = { "food" => "true" }
end
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points 
grocery_item["food"]

is "Bread", so you can also set it to true.

grocery_item["food"] = true

Use true, not the string "true". That's what treehouse excepts.

Hope you understand! ~xela888

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

first off, you don't need to ask if true is true, which is true, to run. You can delete the "== true" part as shown:

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

into

if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
end

second off, change

if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
    grocery_item = { "food" => "true" }
end

into

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

*** MOD Note: Moved from "comment" to "Answer" ***

Niki Torres
Niki Torres
1,026 Points

Thanks Alex! Tried that code but the error is still coming up. Not sure if that's a bug here on Treehouse. :(

Niki Torres
Niki Torres
1,026 Points

Okay it's weird. It worked with...

grocery_item["food"] = true