From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T14:21:09+09:00
Subject: Re: sending irb session to a file in windows

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007, andy eggers wrote:
> Thanks, James, this is useful, although it appears that it only
> retains the history of commands I enter, without the irb output
> (return values, errors, etc). I'm surprised there's no way to send all
> of an irb session (input and output) to a file -- if I'm still missing
> something, please someone let me know.

As far as I know (and I'm definitely open to the possibility that I'm
wrong here) that's not really possible outside of windows, either.  You
can capture the output, but getting both the input and output would be
tricky.

I think your best bet is to just copy/paste the sections as you describe
below.  That's what I'd be doing on OSX to accomplish the same thing.

An alternative would be to look at the history stuff James pointed you
at, and edit the part that writes history out to a file to also exec
each line and put its output in the file.  My guess is that would get
you most of the way there.

Either way, please share what you figure out :)

Ben