From: Nicolas Blanco Date: 2006-08-28T23:59:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie : assign a value to a variable... Thank you very much for all your answers... I think I will use this for now : per_page = @params.fetch(:per_page, 20).to_i per_page = 20 if per_page <= 0 Nicolas. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.