[reaganing]

to be clear, my line 10 looks like this:

puts "There are #{cars} cars available."

But, yeah, complete Ruby noob here as well so I don't really know what's wrong.

[danso]

>10 puts "There are " + cars + " cars available."

Yes, this will throw an error in Ruby because of line 1:

>1 cars = 100

Ruby does not allow the mixing of integers and strings. So, as mentioned, you can invoke the .to_s method. Or you can interpolate the variables as you have done so with #{cars} inside double quotes.

[grossvogel]

When I read exercise 4, I thought, "I can't believe Ruby made the same mistake as Javascript!" Glad to learn this particular type of foot shooting is not possible in Ruby.

[reaganing]

Thank you, that makes sense.

[getsat]

Interpolation actually calls #to_s on the object, so if object.respond_to?(:to_s) returns true, you can use use it inside #{} in any kind of string that allows interpolation.