Ruby Dice Roller

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        Just a brief exercise, I couldn't find anything on DZone Snippets that did this in Ruby. I wanted some pretty formatting, too, so it could be simplified.

class Fixnum

  def roll(num=1)
    out = Hash.new{|h,k| h[k] = []}
    num.times {
      out[:rolls] << 1 + rand(self)
    }
    out[:total] = out[:rolls].inject{|sum,n| sum + n}
    out
  end

end

Usage would be:

>> 6.roll 4
=> {:rolls=>[5, 6, 5, 5], :total=>21}

Next step would be to make it more #d# format, so 3.d(20) would work, and would be dead simple to implement.

class Fixnum

  def d(sides=2)
    out = Hash.new{|h,k| h[k] = []}
    self.times {
      out[:rolls] << 1 + rand(sides)
    }
    out[:total] = out[:rolls].inject{|sum,n| sum + n}
    out
  end

end

>> 3.d(6)
=> {:rolls=>[4, 5, 4], :total=>13}

Et voila!    

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• dice
• Ruby