How to get the nth element of an Enumerable in Ruby

Question

For example, to return the 10,000th prime number I could write:

require \'prime\'
Prime.first(10000).last #=> 104729

But creating a huge

Answer 1

Based on sawa's solution, here's a more succinct alternative:

Prime.find.with_index(1) { |_, i| i == 10000 }
#=> 104729

or

Prime.find.with_index { |_, i| i == 9999 }
#=> 104723