From: Ant Walliams Date: 2010-05-29T03:29:15+09:00 Subject: A complete beginners question Hi there, Sorry this is probably going to be a real easy question but I am totally new to programming. I was following some tutorial online and at the end of the first chapter it said 'Now create a program that asks the user for a number and then suggests a higher number as a better option. So what I wanted to happen below is it takes the users input and just adds 1 to it. But is is coming back with "rb:3:in '+' can't convert fixnum into string' puts 'What is your favourite number?' number = gets.chomp number+=1 puts 'Do you not think' + number + 'is a better number?' Any help would be appreciated its doing my head in. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.