How do I generate the first n prime numbers?

Question

I am learning Ruby and doing some math stuff. One of the things I want to do is generate prime numbers.

I want to generate the first ten prime numbers and the first ten

Answer 1

If you'd like to do it yourself, then something like this could work:

class Integer < Numeric
    def is_prime?
        return false if self <= 1
        2.upto(Math.sqrt(self).to_i) do |x|
            return false if self%x == 0
        end 
        true
    end 

    def next_prime
        n = self+1
        n = n + 1 until n.is_prime?
        n   
    end 
end

Now to get the first 10 primes:

e = Enumerator.new do |y|
    n = 2
    loop do
        y << n
        n = n.next_prime
    end
end

primes = e.take 10