From: Wes Bailey <wes@...>
Date: 2010-06-01T15:05:15+09:00
Subject: Re: A complete beginners question

----- "Josh Cheek" <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Guten <ywzhaifei@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The final solution is look like this:
> >
> > puts 'What is your favourite number?'
> > number = gets.chomp.to_i
> > number +=1
> > puts 'Do you not think #{number} is a better number?'
> >
> 
> You don't need chomp.
> 
> "1\n".to_i # => 1
> "1".to_i   # => 1

Let's not forget our double quotes.  Also why write so much code?

puts 'What is your favorite number?'
puts "Bah! #{gets.to_i + 1} is a better number!"

Understand the #{...} is implicitly invoking to_s on the result so it can be displayed as part of the final string.