Calvin
5/27/2009 1:53:00 AM
On May 26, 6:10 pm, Calvin <cstephe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a beginner trying to write a Ruby program that mimics the song
> - '99 bottles of beer on the wall'. I want the program to ask 'how
> many bottles...' on the wall, subract 1 from that number, and then ask
> the question again until it gets down to 1 bottle of beer on the wall.
> So far can only get the program to subtract the number once and then
> the program stops. Any hints, suggestions, or reccomendations to a
> page/chapter in the 'Programming Ruby 1.8' book would be greatly
> appreciated. Here is the Ruby code I put together so far:
>
> question = 'how many bottles of beer on the wall?'
> puts question
> x = gets.chomp
> y = x .to_i - '1' .to_i
> response = y .to_s + ' bottles of beer on the wall'
>
> if y != 1
> puts response
> puts question
> end
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Calvin
I should have searched for similar projects in the group discussions-
found my answer... kind of. Sorry to bother you guys.