From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-18T02:40:37+09:00
Subject: Re: IRB as test interface to existing object

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 01:42:42AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> The following drops into (or _back_ into) an irb session.

This works perfectly, thank you (great to get command history!)

It also looks suspiciously like IRB.start in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb -
shame that doesn't take a second optional parameter for the workspace.

> (Customizing 
> the prompt is another matter, and I don't remember how to do that, but 
> it might be findable on ruby-talk.)

Just defining a to_s method on the object works well enough for me. I have
also found more details about IRB.conf in "man irb" (actually "man irb1.8"
on this Ubuntu box)

Thanks again,

Brian.