From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-08-22T00:19:57+09:00
Subject: Re: How to "cast" in Ruby

On Aug 21, 7:12 am, Kaldrenon <kaldre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 21, 8:13 am, Marcin Tyman <m.ty...@interia.pl> wrote:
>
> > David,
> > Your solution doesn't work correctly. I've resolved this like that
>
> > temp = String.new("#{el.elements["id"].get_text}")
> > arr << temp.to_i
>
> How about: arr << "#{el.elements["id"].get_text}".to_i ?

If you ever are tempted to write:
"#{foo}"
you should realize that it's functionally equivalent to
foo.to_s