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[ruby] Why is division in Ruby returning an integer instead of decimal value?

You can check it with irb:

$ irb
>> 2 / 3
=> 0
>> 2.to_f / 3
=> 0.666666666666667
>> 2 / 3.to_f
=> 0.666666666666667

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