From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T00:59:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Force IRB into interactive mode (to display prompt)?


On Oct 4, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Rob Pierry wrote:

> I'm implementing a front end for irb that involves running it in a
> background process.  I have it working such that I can collect input
> from my program and write it to the redirected stdin of irb and then
> read the output from redirected stdout, but it looks like when irb
> detects that it isn't running in interactive mode it doesn't print a
> prompt for some reason.
>
> I've tried setting conf.verbose = true, but that doesn't work.  If I
> don't redirect stdin, the prompt appears just fine.  How can I  
> force irb
> to display the prompt, even if stdin is redirected?
>
> I'm using 1.8.5 on windows xp.
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>
What are you trying to do?
You want some kind of status program to monitor activity?