[ruby-core:29151] Re: [Bug #3009] Unable to enter a numeric value into the text field.

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, shanth kumar wrote:

> Bug #3009: Unable to enter a numeric value into the text field.
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3009
> 
> Author: shanth kumar
> Status: Open, Priority: Normal
> ruby -v: 1.8.6
> 
> In my web page there is a text field "Age".
> I would like to enter age into that field.
> I written a code such that 
> ie.text_field(:name,'age').set(25)

This looks to me like you are using the watir library.
This is not about ruby itself.

> It it throwing below error
> undefined method `length' for 123:Fixnum (NoMethodError).
> 
> But It is not throwing an error if I written the code as below
> ie.text_field(:name,'age').set('25')

It is a text field. It expects text. Only the program receiving this input
can validate its input to be a number, and possibly only an integer.
If you must pass in a number, you can use .to_s to make it into a string.

Hope that helps
        Hugh