From: bbiker Date: 2007-01-22T04:55:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby text editor for beginner Giles Bowkett wrote: > I have a theory about this. > > My theory is that newbies ask for an IDE because they don't understand irb. > > If you're a newbie and you want an IDE, my advice is to give it up > entirely and instead learn irb. > > You can get syntax coloring in irb with Wirble, and if you're using > Rails, which many many newbies are, script/console is a Rails extended > version of irb, which is very very good. > Question: How do you use wirble with win32 machine? The wirble documentation talks about .irbrc file which obviously I do not have ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32] irb 0.9.5(05/04/13) Thank you for any assistance you may offer.