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Ruby Ruby Booleans Build a Simple Todo List Program Finding Array Items

Posted by Henry Dashwood
Henry Dashwood
Courses Plus Student 4,336 Points

Help finding array items

I feel like this code should be correct. I have consulted other forum posts to check and I can't see where I am going wrong.

I keep getting the error message:

NameError: undefined local variable or method `found' for Todo

todo_list.rb 
class TodoList
  attr_reader :name, :todo_items

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
    @todo_items = []
  end

  def add_item(name)
    todo_items.push(TodoItem.new(name))
  end

  def find_index(name)
    index = 0
    found = false
    todo_items.each do |item|
    if item.name == name
      found = true
      break
    end
      index += 1
    end
  end
  if found
    return index
  else
    return nil
  end  
end

1 Answer

Jacob Bergdahl
Jacob Bergdahl
29,119 Points

This part:

if found
    return index
  else
    return nil
  end

is outside of the end above it :) They are outside of the function! Move those lines above the end keyword, and see if that works.