From: J-H Johansen <ondemannen@...>
Date: 2010-05-29T04:13:57+09:00
Subject: Re: A complete beginners question

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Ant Walliams
<anthonywainwright@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Reid Thompson wrote:
>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 03:29:15AM +0900, Ant Walliams wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>> puts 'What is your favourite number?'
>>> number = gets.chomp
>>> number+=1
>>> puts 'Do you not think' + number + 'is a better number?'
>>  puts 'Do you not think' + number.to_s + 'is a better number?'
>
> Thank for the reply but I am still getting the same error even after
> making your changes. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Ant
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>
>

You need to convert the input from String to Fixnum

puts "What is your favourite number?"
number = gets.chomp.to_i
number+=1
puts "Do you not think #{number} is a better number?"


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