Start a loop from 1

Question

I recently came upon the scary idea that Integer.count loops in Ruby start from 0 and go to n-1 while playing with the Facebook Engine

Answer 1

There is of course the while-loop:

i = 1
while i<=10 do
  print "#{i} "
  i += 1
end
# Outputs: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10