How can I generate a random number within a range in Rust?

Editor's note: This code example is from a version of Rust prior to 1.0 and is not syntactically valid Rust 1.0 code. Updated versions of this code produce different errors, but the answers still contain valuable information.

I came across the following example of how to generate a random number using Rust, but it doesn't appear to work. The example doesn't show which version of Rust it applies to, so perhaps it is out-of-date, or perhaps I got something wrong.

// http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/rand/trait.Rng.html

use std::rand;
use std::rand::Rng;

fn main() {
    let mut rng = rand::task_rng();
    let n: uint = rng.gen_range(0u, 10);
    println!("{}", n);
    let m: float = rng.gen_range(-40.0, 1.3e5);
    println!("{}", m);
}

When I attempt to compile this, the following error results:

test_rand002.rs:6:17: 6:39 error: type @mut std::rand::IsaacRng does not
implement any method in scope named gen_range
test_rand002.rs:6 let n: uint = rng.gen_range(0u, 10);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
test_rand002.rs:8:18: 8:46 error: type @mut std::rand::IsaacRng does not
implement any method in scope named gen_range
test_rand002.rs:8 let m: float = rng.gen_range(-40.0, 1.3e5);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


There is another example (as follows) on the same page (above) that does work. However, it doesn't do exactly what I want, although I could adapt it.

use std::rand;
use std::rand::Rng;

fn main() {
    let mut rng = rand::task_rng();
    let x: uint = rng.gen();
    println!("{}", x);
    println!("{:?}", rng.gen::());
}

How can I generate a "simple" random number using Rust (e.g.: i64) within a given range (e.g.: 0 to n)?

Editor's note: This answer is for a version of Rust prior to 1.0 and is not valid in Rust 1.0. See Manoel Stilpen's answer instead.

This has been changing a lot recently (sorry! it's all been me), and in Rust 0.8 it was called gen_integer_range (note the /0.8/ rather than /master/ in the URL, if you are using 0.8 you need to be reading those docs).

A word of warning: .gen_integer_range was entirely incorrect in many ways, the new .gen_range doesn't have incorrectness problems.

Code for master (where .gen_range works fine):

use std::rand::{task_rng, Rng};

fn main() {
    // a number from [-40.0, 13000.0)
    let num: f64 = task_rng().gen_range(-40.0, 1.3e4);
    println!("{}", num);
}

Stack Overflow Q#19671845, score: 28