From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-07-28T05:15:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Some issues with Ruby

Alexandre Rosenfeld wrote:
> - My irb doesnt autocomplete objects. When I press TAB, it autocompletes
> paths, but not methods, variables, etc. I have readlines installed.

Use this command:

  irb -r irb/completion

OR put this line in your .irbrc file:

require 'irb/completion'

> - When I want to use Gem packages, I have to "include 'rubygems'" before
> I can use any package. This wasnt the case in Windows, is it needed in
> Linux? Is there a way to avoid it?

Put

export RUBYOPT='rubygems'

in your shell's env file (.zshenv for me).

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