From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@...>
Date: 2007-11-04T04:40:01+09:00
Subject: Re: dragons and factorials (keyboard input)

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Thufir wrote:

> C:\code>type makeDragon.rb
> require 'Dragon'
> require 'factorial'
>
> aDragon = Dragon.new
>
> aDragon.toString
>
> number=0
> print "\n\n\nthe Dragon will calculate a factorial now."
> puts "\nenter an integer    "
> number=gets

Add number = number.to_i or number = Integer(number)

gets returns a string, so you need to convert it to an integer.

> # print "\n\n\n" + number + "\n\n"
>
> print "Dragon replies\n\n"
> print fact(number)

Aditya