# Help with while commands

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-while-commands/171849>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 10, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-while-commands/171849 "2009-07-10T04:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jord1000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@jord1000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jord1000)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-while-commands/171849/1 "2009-07-10T04:25:56Z")

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hello,  
I am very new to the ruby world and just to get some practice I  
began writing a little program that allows you to interact (this all  
through text mind you) with a baby dragon. Anyway, after i use gets for  
“getsing” the name. I am having trouble stopping it from ending the  
program as opposed to allowing me to type a command to interact with the  
baby dragon. So far i have this:  
class Dragon

boyg=rand(2)  
if boyg==0  
@gender=‘boy’  
@gen=‘him’  
end  
if boyg==1  
@gender=‘girl’  
@gen=‘her’  
end

```
puts 'Gongratulations, you are now the parent of a beautiful baby '

```

- @gender + ’ dragon!’  
puts 'What will you name ’ + @gen + ‘?’

@name=gets.chomp  
puts 'Say hello to ’ + @name + ‘!’

puts ‘There are many things you can do with’  
puts ‘litte ’ + @name + ’ here!’  
puts ‘You can type commands such as…’  
puts ‘’  
puts ‘feed’  
puts ‘sleep’  
puts ‘burp’  
puts ‘potty’  
puts ‘play’  
puts ‘Not to mention a few you are just going’  
puts ‘to have to find yourself!’  
puts ‘’

def feed  
puts ‘’ + @name + ’ licks ’ + @gen + '‘s chops and jumps’  
puts ‘to catch the large hunk of meat.’  
@stuffinBelly=10  
passageofTime  
end

def sleep  
puts ‘You put ’ + name + ’ to bed’  
@asleep=true  
3.times do  
if @asleep  
puts @name = ’ snores, filling the room with smoke’  
end

command= ‘’

```
while command != 'bye'
  puts '' + @name + ' looks up at you...'
  command=gets.chomp
end

```

end  
end  
end

Now i know i have very few interactions, but as i was maing them i  
wanted to test them. When i realized i could not i whipped up this  
little while and command thing you see at the bottom. When that didnt  
work i came to the forums and further progress halted. Any help for a  
begginer? Thanks in advance.

Jord1000

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**Author:** ![jord1000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@jord1000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jord1000)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-while-commands/171849/2 "2009-07-10T05:28:49Z")

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Hi,

Am Freitag, 10. Jul 2009, 11:25:58 +0900 schrieb Jorden Gershenson:

> end
> 
> puts ‘Gongratulations, you are now the parent of a beautiful baby ’ @gender + ’ dragon!’  
> puts 'What will you name ’ + @gen + ‘?’
> 
> end

Just some ideas for fun:

class Dragon  
GENDERS = { :boy =\> “him”, :girl =\> “her” }  
@gender = [:boy, :girl][(rand 2)]  
@gen = GENDERS[@gender]  
puts \<\<-EOT  
Gongratulations, you are now the parent of a beautiful baby #@gender  
dragon!  
What will you name #@gen?  
EOT  
end

Nice what Ruby can turn to, isn’t it?

Bertram