From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T11:13:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Ruby and Writing Variables In Strings

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On 2006.10.18 10:06, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
>=20
> >The snipet of code its referring to is:
> >
> >puts number + ' bottles of beer on the wall, ' number + ' bottles of
> >beer. Take one down pass it around'
>=20
> You are missing a plus in the above line.  You need one right before =20
> the second `number` to join it into the string.
>=20
> When you get that far, you will run into a new error (assuming =20
> `number` is actually numeric). ;)
>=20
> You need to convert numbers to put them in strings.  You can do this =20
> with the to_s method available to all numbers:
>=20
>   puts '1 + 2 =3D' + 3.to_s

Or
 =20
  puts "1 + 2 =3D #{3}"

To avoid having to #to_s everything manually.

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