From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T20:17:14+09:00
Subject: Re: irb: a great tool in it's own right

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rcoder@gmail.com wrote:
| 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.

Just in case anyone is really interested, the def is

~ def method_missing( method, *args )
~   system method.to_s + " " + args.join(' ')
~ end

and you could perhaps call

~ dir %w{ *.rb }

++ for the method missing comment !

- --
kaspar

semantics & semiotics
code manufacture

www.tua.ch/ruby
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