From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T15:34:32+09:00
Subject: Re: using irb

On 1/4/06, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:

> > Many (perhaps most) Rubyists use irb to try out simple Ruby stuff. I
> > suspect you would agree. In any case it's easy enough for you to give it
> > a try and make up your own mind.
>
> I edit in gvim, with the Ruby menu and macro stuff,  and it's trivial to
> edit something and press F5 to run the current file.

I use plain old vim and gvim and have both irb and the ruby
interpreter bound to keyboard shortcuts.

This way, I can write out whole programs and run them, or just pop
open an irb session right inside my editor. :)

Combine this with 'ri what's under my cursor' and you've got a rockin'
development environment