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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) Ruby Numbers Practicing with Numbers

Julia Thalita Da Silva Carrilo
Julia Thalita Da Silva Carrilo
1,347 Points
Posted by Julia Thalita Da Silva Carrilo
Julia Thalita Da Silva Carrilo
1,347 Points

Error about +

When I use the "+" always show this error and not show me result. my code: name = "Julia" string = "My name is #{name}" puts string

year = "2014" puts "The year is #{year}"

future = 5 puts "In #{future} years, the year will be #{year + future}"

error in console:

The year is 2014
hello.rb:9:in +': no implicit conversion of Fixnum into St ring (TypeError) from hello.rb:9:in<main>'

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The issue is that the year variable is considered a string (which is used to represent text) and not an int (which is used to represent numbers) due to the fact that you have wrapped the number in quotation marks.

Quotation marks are only used when declaring a string. For pure numbers you should just write them out normally like you have done with the future variable.

So if you remove the quotation marks around the year like this:

year = 2014
puts "The year is #{year}"

future = 5
puts "In #{future} years, the year will be #{year + future}"

Then your code will work.