From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2010-09-07T09:16:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Dice Roller

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Hd Pwnz0r
<human.dictionary@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> It won't work. It's odd. It won't stop and it won't add a number onto x
> so it would say
> "Roll 1: 5
> Roll 2: 3"
> etc
>
> It just repeats "Roll 1: (random number)".
>
> Also, is there a way for me to add one to the rand function so it won't
> get a zero?
>
> Attachments:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/5009/dice.rb
>
I've added comments to your code pointing to areas of concern:

puts "How many dice do you want to roll?"
roll = gets.chomp
num_rolls = roll # Why are you assigning to num_rolls here? You never
use this variable!
y = 0 # "y" is a bad name for a variable, generally. What is this
variable for? Why is it 0?
x = y.to_i + 1 # What is "x" for? Why are you calling to_i on
something you just assigned an integer value, so you should know you
don't need this?
while x <= roll.to_i # since you never assign to x, if it is ever
true, it will always be true and you'll never escape from the loop.
  puts "Roll " + x.to_s + ": " + rand(max=6).to_s # you are assigning
6 to max -- a variable you never use anywhere else -- and then
immediately passing that to rand. Why?
end