Splitting string to integer from single-line user input?

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Published on 2010-12-24T12:09:20Z Indexed on 2010/12/24 12:54 UTC
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I just started learning some ruby, and I want to do something like this:

print "Insert two numbers: "
a, b = gets.split(" ")

but I want to make a and b to be integers at the same time (in the same line).. If I add .to_i to the second line (before or after split(" ")), it doesn't work... so, how should I approach this? mapping, splitting, slicing? ok, I know I could use scanf, but other than scanf, how would I do this?

sorry for such a noobish question, but I just couldn't find a good enough answer only googling...

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