Rain Program

So I've made a program to turn off the rain using the rainmaker from forestry. I run my program, but my turtle does not appear to care that the turtle.detect() is false. It's clearly something wrong with my program. Could I get some advice as to how to fix the problem?

Thanks!!!

The goal of this program is to get it to check for a block, and if there is one, then give the rainmaker a dissipation charge, which it contains in its inventory.


local x
x = 0
while x<9 do
turtle.detect()
if true then turtle.turnRight()
turtle.turnRight()
turtle.drop(1)
sleep(19)
turtle.turnRight()
turtle.turnRight()
if false then sleep(5)
end
end
end

Here:

for x=1,9 do
  if turtle.detect() then
    turtle.turnRight()
    turtle.turnRight()
    turtle.drop(1)
    sleep(19)
    turtle.turnRight()
    turtle.turnRight()
  else
    sleep(5)
  end
end

local x
x = 0
while x<9 do
 turtle.detect()  --#you are not storing the return
 if true then turtle.turnRight()  --#true is always true...
  turtle.turnRight()
  turtle.drop(1)
  sleep(19)
  turtle.turnRight()
  turtle.turnRight()
  if false then sleep(5) --#false is always false...
  end
 end
end 

Fixed the formatting for you, it's quite obvious what's wrong here.

for i = 1, 9 do --#for loops automatically increment
 local block = turtle.detect()  --#you are not storing the return
 if block then turtle.turnRight()
  turtle.turnRight()
  turtle.drop(1)
  sleep(19)
  turtle.turnRight()
  turtle.turnRight()
  elseif not block then --# not simply inverts the value.  false becomes true, true becomes false.
   sleep(5)
  end
 end
end

Ninja'd by Assossa, but I've got a bit more explanation then he does.

Edit: fixed my code tags

That isn't quite what I wanted. I want it to keep checking for the rain until it occurs, so that when it does, it turns off the rain and then starts checking again. I'm using a rain sensor from project red to send a redstone signal to my piston forcing a block down for the turtle to detect.

Sorry!