From: Felipe Malta de Oliveira <femol@...>
Date: 2004-07-29T07:07:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Expansion Pak I: The Tiger's Vest (with a Basic Introduction to Irb)

Absolutely, especially when some people are just starting to learn and love
Ruby (like me) and don't have a *nix box, this is a great addition and an
imense help when first learning Ruby...Nubys will apreciate it! :-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Youngblood" <carl.youngblood@gmail.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Expansion Pak I: The
Tiger's Vest (with a Basic Introduction to Irb)


> Don't you guys think that this stuff should be included in the
> one-click installer for Windows?  It should probably even include the
> ~/.irbrc settings to turn it on, so that users don't have to do
> anything to have tab completion.
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:44:37 +0900, why the lucky stiff
> <ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net> wrote:
> > Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > >
> > > This reminds me that I want to fix the fact that tab-completion does
not
> > > work in irb in the one-click installer -- I never knew why and I kept
> > > forgetting to ask.
> > >
> >
> > This topic's been knocked about on the discussion list for the
> > (Poignant) Guide.  I don't know if this is the same set of files that
> > Gabriele is offering, but it works for me:
> >
> >   http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/dist/readline.so-for-1.8.zip
> >
> > Two files inside.  Place readline.dll in $RUBY/bin.  The readline.so
> > goes in $RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32.  Then, to get Irb working with
> > Readline:
> >
> >   irb --readline -r irb/completion
> >
> > Or the ~/.irbrc that Raph offered will work as well.
> >
> > _why
> >
> >
>
>