From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T05:31:53+09:00
Subject: Re: I’m having a hard time learning ruby.

From: "Nate Imaqaguy" <breakingsoftware@gmail.com>
>
> Someone told me about “.methods”, but that only works if you’re in an
> irb session, which I find painful to use because I have to type all my
> code in, line by line.  I can’t even figure out how to paste each line
> of the code I already have.  Inevitably I fat finger something and get
> mad.

On Windows, I've found running irb as:

irb --noreadline

can provide more hassle-free support for line editing / copy / paste and
command history in irb.



Hope this helps,

Bill