Start a loop from 1

Question

I recently came upon the scary idea that Integer.count loops in Ruby start from 0 and go to n-1 while playing with the Facebook Engine

Answer 1

Ruby supports a number of ways of counting and looping:

1.upto(10) do |i|
  puts i
end

>> 1.upto(10) do |i|
 >     puts i
|    end #=> 1
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There's also step instead of upto which allows you to increment by a step value:

>> 1.step(10,2) { |i| puts i } #=> 1
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