From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2007-05-29T23:49:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Bootstrap

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On 5/29/07, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 05:38:20PM +0900, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> > Where is its startup file? ie. what script loads these:
> >
> > >>$LOADED_FEATURES
>
> Whatever you typed to get the ">>" prompt.
>
> > =3D> ["e2mmap.rb", "irb/init.rb", "irb/workspace.rb", "irb/context.rb",
> > "irb/extend-command.rb", "irb/output-method.rb", "irb/notifier.rb",
> > "irb/slex.rb", "irb/ruby-token.rb", "irb/ruby-lex.rb", "readline.so",
> > "irb/input-method.rb", "irb/locale.rb", "irb.rb", "irb/completion.rb", =
"
> > rbconfig.rb", "rubygems/rubygems_version.rb", "thread.rb",
> > "rbconfig/datadir.rb", "rubygems/user_interaction.rb", "socket.so", "
> > timeout.rb", "net/protocol.rb", "uri/common.rb", "uri/generic.rb",
> > "uri/ftp.rb", "uri/http.rb", "uri/https.rb", "uri/ldap.rb",
> "uri/mailto.rb",
> > "uri.rb", "net/http.rb", "stringio.so", "yaml/error.rb", "syck.so",
> > "yaml/ypath.rb", "yaml/basenode.rb", "yaml/syck.rb", "yaml/tag.rb",
> > "yaml/stream.rb", "yaml/constants.rb", "rational.rb", "date/format.rb",
> "
> > date.rb", "yaml/rubytypes.rb", "yaml/types.rb", "yaml.rb", "zlib.so",
> > "rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb", "digest.so", "digest/sha2.so",
> > "rubygems/digest/digest_adapter.rb", "rubygems/digest/sha2.rb", "
> > forwardable.rb", "parsedate.rb", "time.rb", "rubygems/source_index.rb",
> > "rubygems/version.rb", "rubygems/specification.rb", "openssl.so",
> > "openssl/bn.rb", "openssl/cipher.rb", "openssl/digest.rb",
> > "openssl/buffering.rb", "fcntl.so", "openssl/ssl.rb", "openssl/x509.rb"=
,
> "
> > openssl.rb", "rubygems/gem_openssl.rb", "rubygems/security.rb",
> > "rubygems/custom_require.rb", "rubygems.rb", "ostruct.rb", "wirble.rb",
> "
> > prettyprint.rb", "pp.rb"]
>
> Looking at this huge list of things, I'm not sure what you ran. It's not
> big
> enough to be rails script/console, but is too big to be plain old irb:
>
> $ irb1.8
> irb(main):001:0> $LOADED_FEATURES
> =3D> ["irb.rb", "e2mmap.rb", "irb/init.rb", "irb/context.rb",
> "irb/workspace.rb", "irb/extend-command.rb", "irb/ruby-lex.rb",
> "irb/slex.rb", "irb/notifier.rb", "irb/output-method.rb",
> "irb/ruby-token.rb", "irb/input-method.rb", "readline.so",
> "irb/locale.rb"]
> irb(main):002:0>


It WAS irb on my Linux system. I have syntax highlighting and tab completio=
n
turned on though.



If you try just Ruby by itself, you'll find nothing is loaded by default.
>
> $ ruby1.8 -e 'p $LOADED_FEATURES'
> []
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian.
>
>


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