From: Geoff Stanley <geoffstanley@...>
Date: 2006-05-22T22:58:21+09:00
Subject: IRB'ing within a program

Hello all

I'm hoping someone has a better idea as to how to do this than I. What 
I'm looking to do, essentially, is start a new irb session within a ruby 
program. This program would get input from the user, feed that input to 
a the irb session that it creates (and it could recreate it everytime a 
specific input is given from the user, such as "/irb_clear"), then 
return the result from irb.

The program might look like this:

    require "irb"
    while input = gets.chomp do
        case input
            when /^\/exit.*/
                break
            when /^\/irb_clear.*/
                # Clear irb history
            when /^\/irb\s+(.*)$/
                #send $1 to irb, then puts the result.
            end
    end

Let me know if any of this is confusing and needs further explaining.
Thanks!

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