From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T14:46:15+09:00
Subject: Re: sending irb session to a file in windows

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:21:09PM +0900, Ben Bleything wrote:
> 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.

It's easy in Linux:

$ script foo.txt
$ irb
irb>
...
irb> exit
$ exit
$ cat foo.txt

Technically that only captures the output, but since the output includes the
keystrokes you typed echoed back, that's what you see on the screen.