From: Abder-Rahman Ali <abder.rahman.ali@...>
Date: 2010-07-13T20:30:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Why do I get undefined method?

Peter Hickman wrote:
> year = gets
> 
> returns a string but your function requires a fixnum
> 
> so try
> 
> year = gets.to_i
> 
> this is one of the few times that you have to explicitly convert
> types. It doesn't happen alot in ruby and each time it catches me out

Thanks a lot Peter, that solves it. And, thanks for you other for your 
replies.
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