From: Tyler Prete <psyonic@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T07:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: VIM and IRB

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I'm looking into his script above... but even your script is a lifesaver!  I
use vim almost exclusively (although the new Netbeans stuff is tempting...)
but getting my code into irb has often been a pain for me.  Thanks for the
script!

--Tyler Prete

On 5/6/07, Brian Guthrie <btguthrie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/6/07, Frank Fischer <frank.fischer@s2001.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > my favourite editor for programming is Vim. When editing some
> ruby-scripts I
> > usually have an xterm open with a running irb-session. When testing some
> > code snippets, I copy & paste them to IRB. In Emacs I could evaluate
> those
> > snippets in an inferior-ruby session within Emacs. I do not know how to
> > this in Vim, so I wrote a little vim-plugin called 'vinfruby' to do
> > something similar.
> >
> > vinfruby starts an xterm with an IRB session and uses DRb to communicate
> > with the Vim-plugin. The plugin then sends the code to be evaluated on
> > keypress to IRB, for example just press '\rt' to open an irb session,
> '\rf'
> > to send the whole file to irb or '\rd' to send the current 'def..end'
> > block.
> >
> > I do not know, but perhaps someone may find this script useful so I
> decided
> > to post it here in the news. Just extract the files from
> >
> > http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fifr/downloads/vinfruby.tgz
> >
> > to ~/.vim/plugin. The file 'vinfruby.vim' explains the key-mappings. The
> > plugin is neighter complete nor pretty well tested, but it works for me.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hope it may be useful,
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Frank.
>
> Much simpler but not nearly as cool, and I don't know if others do the
> same, I have my vim set up to save and run the current file in IRB
> when I hit F2 (doesn't work in gvim):
>
> map <F2> :!clear<CR>:w<CR>:!irb -r%<CR>
>
> Brian
>
>

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