From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T06:36:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby text editor for beginner

On 1/21/07, bbiker <renard@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 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)
>

You can't. Not because you can't have a .irbrc file (You just need to
specify a directory in the HOME environment variable, and put it
there).. but because Microsoft got rid of color support in the command
prompt.
You could disable color in wirble and make it work though, I suspect.