From: "lrlebron@..." <lrlebron@...>
Date: 2006-12-28T02:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie problem: String can't be coerced into Fixnum


You have to make sure that the variable types are correct. Here's a
revised version of your script

name = "My name" # This variable was missing in the original code

puts "How old are you?"
age = gets.chomp   #  gets are a string by default

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

t = Time.now
born = t.year-age.to_i  # convert age to an integer

puts "You were probably born in " + born.to_s + "."  #convert born to a
string

Hope this helps

Luis

Ja Bo 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!!!
> 
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