From: Mark Kremer <mark@...>
Date: 2011-02-24T14:07:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35362] Re: suggestion: default irb to saving history

That is a feature of irb, you just have to enable it yourself in your 
~/.irbrc :)

In certain versions of irb this doesn't work, you can then use this a 
custom script to do it for you. There's an example on Stack Overflow: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2065923/irb-history-not-working

On 24-2-2011 1:52, Roger Pack wrote:
> Hello all.
> I'm a big fan of irb, but whenever I use it on servers or what not, I
> am always surprised that history isn't enabled by default.
> Consider this a feature request of such (save to .irb_history in home
> dir by default).
> Cheers!
> -r
>