From: Jason Mayer <slamboy@...>
Date: 2006-12-28T02:17:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie problem: String can't be coerced into Fixnum

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On 12/27/06, Ja Bo <jbornhoft@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am brand new to Ruby and I would greatly appreciate any help you guys
> can provide!
>
> If this is not the correct place to post them please let me know where I
> should post these types of questions.
>
> This very short program is just supposed to take today's date using t =
> Time.now and calculating what year the user was born...
>
> Code:
> puts "How old are you?"
> age = gets.chomp
>
> puts name + " is " + age + " years old."
>
> t = Time.now
> born = t.year - age
>
> puts "You were probably born in " + born + "."
>
>
> Thank you!!!
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.


You were outputting a string, and adding a integer to the string.

name = "Jason"
puts "How old are you?"
age = gets.chomp

puts name + " is " + age + " years old."

t = Time.now

born =(t.year - age.to_i)

puts "You were probably born in " + born.to_s + "."

How old are you?
28
Jason is 28 years old.
You were probably born in 1978.

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