From: Robert Klemme Date: 2012-04-05T00:11:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie loops question Bryan, and if you have your loop working you can do $ ri19 Fixnum#downto and see how it can be done without an explicit loop. :-) Btw, for the printing I find it more convenient to do puts #{int} bottles of beer on the wall, #{int} bottles of beer' than puts int.to_s + ' bottles of beer on the wall, ' + int.to_s + ' bottles of beer' Kind regards robert -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.