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Ruby Ruby Loops Build a Simple Contact List Assigning Hash Values From Methods

Posted by PRAKASH ANAND
PRAKASH ANAND
Courses Plus Student 5,060 Points

NameError: undefined local variable or method `contact' for main:Object

undefined contact

contact.rb 
contact_list = []

contact = {"name" => "", "phone_number" => "" }
def get_name

  contact.each do |key , value|
    value=contact['name']
  end
  return value
end
get_name()

2 Answers

Nicholas Dunn
Nicholas Dunn
9,814 Points
Nicholas Dunn
Nicholas Dunn
9,814 Points

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16246794/declaring-variables-in-ruby

This may help

Nicholas Dunn
Nicholas Dunn
9,814 Points
Nicholas Dunn
Nicholas Dunn
9,814 Points

Also your variable is contact_list not contact. That's why it's undefined