From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak@...>
Date: 2006-12-28T02:30:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie problem: String can't be coerced into Fixnum

Ja Bo escreveu:
> 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 + "."
> 
> 
You already got a lot of help from the Ruby interpreter. For grasping 
the meaning of the error message, go to the "Pragmatic Programmer's 
Guide" in Standard Types and search about the method #to_i.

HTH

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Cesar Rabak