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Build an Address Book in Ruby

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Searching the Address Book

2:50 with Jason Seifer

In this video, we implement searching on the user facing side of things.

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  when 's'
    print "Search term: "
    search = gets.chomp
    find_by_name(search)
    find_by_phone_number(search)
    find_by_address(search)

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    So, first we'll add that as a prompt on the menu, we'll say Search. 0:00
    And this is going to be pretty easy. 0:06
    We just add another menu option in our case statement. 0:09
    So when it is the letter s. 0:13
    We'll just say enter your search term. 0:18
    And then we will grab that from standard input. 0:24
    And now, we've got all of the different methods that we wrote earlier, 0:28

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