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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Working with Hash Values

Posted by Nichelle Segar
Nichelle Segar
9,857 Points

I set the "food" key to the value of "true", but I can't get passed this question.

Here's the original question:

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 in the hash called "food" with the value of true.

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

grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
Nichelle Segar
Nichelle Segar
9,857 Points

btw, i keep getting this error message:

Bummer! The key food did not have the value of true in the grocery_item hash.

1 Answer

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Hi Nichelle,

You need to add IF and End statements to make it easier. See below. 

if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread")
  grocery_item.store("food", true)
end
Nichelle Segar
Nichelle Segar
9,857 Points

You are awesome. Thx so much!

SY LOC
SY LOC
3,233 Points

Hey Salman, how did you figured to put 'store'? by reading the question, I would type this: if grocery_item.has_value?("Bread") grocery_item = true