A number guessing game in ruby, built during the Girl Code Amsterdam Meetup on the 18. September 2019

number_guessing_game.rb

def play_game(start_range, end_range) 
  computer_guess = rand(start_range..end_range) 
  user_guesses = []
  
  puts "Guess a number" 
  user_guess = gets.chomp.to_i
  
  while user_guess != computer_guess 
    
    if user_guesses.include?(user_guess)
      puts "You've already tried this number, try again" 
    else 
      puts "Wrong! Guess again" 
      user_guesses << user_guess # Add user guess to the array of previous guesses
    end 
    
    user_guess = gets.chomp.to_i 
  end
 puts "Congrats, you guessed it"
end


def run() 
  puts "Welcome to the number guessing game!" 
  sleep(2) 
  puts "Do you want to play a game? [y/n]"
  start_game = gets.chomp.downcase # Ignore the case by always using lower case
  
  while(start_game == "y") # Allow the user to keep playing if they finish a game
    puts "What range do you want to guess between?" 
    start_range = gets.chomp.to_i 
    puts "and" 
    end_range = gets.chomp.to_i
    play_game(start_range, end_range) 
    
    puts "Do you want to play another game? [y/n]" 
    start_game = gets.chomp 
  end
 puts "Boo, stopping game"
end


run() # Start the game