"Basically, I need to make sure that when I ask for an integer, I get an integer. And when I want a string - I can reject anything but strings."

Can't you use Ruby services like is_a? to force it ?

Thanks, David Kramf

On Nov 21, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Carolyn Ann Grant wrote:

Basically, I need to make sure that when I ask for an integer, I get an integer. And when I want a string - I can reject anything but strings.