Thank you :) I like to see how small and concise I can make my code and with a new language its quite a challenge. As a side commentary I did get annoyed with ruby a couple of times. An example being the zero based comparison check. I kept going down paths such as rom.index(key).zero? Since that made a lot of sense, then realizing that it wouldn't work because the index method could return a nil as well as a number. I'm definitly looking forward to the next one now. jason James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Mar 6, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Jason Bailey wrote: > >> I'm new to ruby so this was quite a fun little thing to help me get >> up to speed on what you can do with the language. > > > Well, if you're new (heck, even if you're not), I'm impressed. Nice > solution!