From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-28T22:10:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Saving an IRB Session

Matthew Cox <Matthew.A.Cox@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm learning Ruby from the pickaxe book and I'm using the IRB to try
> out examples. I'd like to know if it is possible to save to disk the
> IRB session so that when I come back I can load up a session to the
> state it was in before. Is this possible?

I do not think so.  You certainly can store objects to disk (using Marshal 
or Yaml) but then you would still be missing a lot info (local variables, 
files to require etc.)

If you are on a Unix a workaround might be to use screen.

Kind regards

    robert