From: "rcoder@..." <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T05:15:01+09:00
Subject: Re: irb: a great tool in it's own right

Yup -- it's like a shell with (*gasp*) intelligent handling of
intermediate results like lists of filenames. At times, I've even
defined a 'method_missing' in my irb toplevel which just calls 'system'
to invoke a command, rather than method, which makes irb even more
shell-like. Of course, you still have to pass arguments to those
commands as an array of strings, but I've found that %w{ ... } works
well.