From: Joel Pearson Date: 2013-03-26T17:11:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Chris Pine Tutorial 99 Bottles of Beer Program You should, as previously stated, use #downto. You're also repeatedly calling to_s. Either use interpolation or just do bottles_of_beer.to_s! before adding it to other strings. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.