Ruby Loops with Grandma

Question

Okay, I'm trying to write a ruby simulation of my grandmother. I can't quite get the loop to work the way I'd like though. I want granny to respond with

"OH, THAT REMINDS ME OF BACK IN (random year) ..."

when you answer her in all caps but I also want her to respond with

"WHAT'D YOU SAY????"

when you don't use all caps. I can get each one to work separately but I can't seem to make a continuous loop of granny with her crazy responses. Here's the code:

puts 'HELLO SONNY! WHAT\'S NEW IN THE WHO\'S IT WHAT\'S IT?'
response = gets.chomp

while response == response.upcase
  puts 'OH, THAT REMINDS ME OF BACK IN ' + (rand(50) + 1905).to_s + '...'
  response = gets.chomp
end

while response != response.upcase
  puts 'WHAT\'D YOU SAY????'
  response = gets.chomp
end

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The issue is that once you exit the first while loop, you're never returning back to it. Try something like this:

while true
  response = gets.strip
  if response == response.upcase
     puts msg1
  else
     puts msg2
  end
end

That'll run forever, until you decide to kill virtual-granny with Ctrl-C.