From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T14:45:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with the downto method...

Kurt Euler wrote:
>     sp_num.downto(1) {|sp_num_step|

       sp_num.to_i.downto(1) {|sp_num_step|

>         do_stuff_here
>     }

Does this help?

BTW, the #{} construct only applies within double-quoted strings and 
regexes (oh, and backquotes, and probably something else I forgot).