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bessiebarnes
bessiebarnes
89,513 Points
Posted by bessiebarnes
bessiebarnes
89,513 Points

Using =, assign pet a new name of "Sassie". I'm stuck on this challenge

pet = Pet.new pet.name = “Sassie” pet.save

bessiebarnes
bessiebarnes
89,513 Points
bessiebarnes
bessiebarnes
89,513 Points

The challenge has 3 parts. The following is the first part which I passed.

(1) Calling Pet.all returns the following collection of records:

<ActiveRecord::Relation [

<Pet id: 1, name: "Tchai", birthdate: "2016-04-26", created_at: "2016-07-28 17:37:24", updated_at: "2016-07-28 17:37:24">,

<Pet id: 3, name: "Annie", birthdate: "2016-04-26", created_at: "2016-07-28 17:37:45", updated_at: "2016-07-28 17:37:45">, #<Pet id: 4, name: "Scottie", birthdate: "1983-05-17", created_at: "2016-08-17 21:19:49", updated_at: "2016-08-17 21:19:49">]

Retrieve the Pet record with an ID of 3, and store the model object in the pet variable.

answer: pet = Pet.find(3)

(2) Using =, assign pet a new name of "Sassie". is the second part of the challenge. I have tried a few variations but can't get anything to pass.

pet = Pet.name pet.name = “Sassie” pet.save

1 Answer

Oswaldo Rangel
Oswaldo Rangel
3,554 Points

Hi Bessie, in order to assign a new value to an existing pet object, you should first get the "pet" instance to modify, in this case something like this: pet = Pet.find(3)

this is where you assign the new value:

pet.name = "Sassie"

for the last step if it's required, you save changes to the database:

pet.save

Cheers and happy coding!