From: John Labovitz <johnl@...>
Date: 2007-01-06T01:56:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Cocoa Run Loop

On Jan 4, 2007, at 5:09 AM, benjohn@fysh.org wrote:

> The other way round (your inverted suggestion), I've got a basic
> application that includes a console. Unfortunately, I loose the tools
> I'm used to having available from a terminal prompt, and I think it
> would restrict using it from a finished script or from a unit test,  
> etc.

This is just a wild guess, but I wonder whether you could use the  
iTerm framework (http://sourceforge.net/projects/iterm/) to embed a  
console in your app.  I suppose (because I haven't tried it) that you  
could instantiate a console using Ruby.  It wouldn't really help in  
IRB'ing your running Ruby app, but it might at least let you have a  
real shell that you (or your users) would interact with, still inside  
your app.

--John