Correct way to populate an Array with a Range in Ruby

Question

I am working through a book which gives examples of Ranges being converted to equivalent arrays using their \"to_a\" methods

When i run the code in irb I get the fol

Answer 1

I just tried to use ranges from bigger to smaller amount and got the result I didn't expect:

irb(main):007:0> Array(1..5)
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
irb(main):008:0> Array(5..1)
=> []

That's because of ranges implementations.
So I had to use the following option:

(1..5).to_a.reverse