i having trouble creating method establish new hash. know easier declare hash, need create method. here have far , keeps generating error message.
def create_new(hash_name) hash_name = hash.new end this should create , empty hash^
def add_item(hash_name, item_name, item_quantity) hash_name[:item_name.to_sym] = item_quantity end i keep getting error message on above code^ trying update hash , add new key value pair method
p create_new("grocery_list") this creates new empty hash^ when call below code says hash undefined
add_item(grocery_list, "pizza", "1") p grocery_list
in create_new method, define hash_name local variable. variable not exist anywhere body of method. that's seems confuse you.
you express better intent :
def create_new hash.new end def add_item(hash, key, value) hash[key.to_sym] = value end in order trying do, have store result of method in kind of variable in order use :
grocery_list = create_new # grocery_list local variable add_item(grocery_list, 'pizza', 1) 