From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T11:46:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Shell commands in irb

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On 2006.10.16 23:10, Andre Nathan wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> I was quite bored this morning and the coffee machine went into its 30
> minute clean cycle, so I came up with this...
>=20
> $ cat .irbrc=20
> Dir["{,/usr,/usr/local}/bin/*"].each do |bin|
>   Object.instance_eval do
>     define_method(File.basename(bin)) do |*args|
>       args.map! { |arg| arg.to_s }
>       system bin, *args
>     end
>   end
> end
>=20
> $ irb --simple-prompt
> irb: warn: can't alias kill from irb_kill.
> >> touch :foo
> =3D> true
> >> mv :foo, :bar
> =3D> true
> >> ls "-l", :bar
> -rw-r--r--  1 andre andre 0 Oct 16 11:56 bar
> =3D> true
> >>
>=20
>=20
> Probably useless, I know... but running "vim :foo.rb" or "top" from
> inside irb is cool :P

You might find rs (the Ruby shell project) of interest! One of the
core tenets is to provide full access to Ruby at the command-line.

  http://projects.kittensoft.org/rs/rdoc/indox.html

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