From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T22:09:44+09:00
Subject: Re: irb: a great tool in it's own right

On Friday 01 October 2004 07:17 am, Kaspar Schiess wrote:
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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

Not to be a killjoy, but can't you just type:

  `ls foo bar`

Hmm.. actually you need a puts in front so

  def `(*args)
    puts super
  end

T.