From: Pit Capitain <pit.capitain@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T18:58:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Force IRB into interactive mode (to display prompt)?

2007/10/4, Rob Pierry <rpierry+ruby@gmail.com>:
> I want to have a pane in my GUI that works like irb.  Basically embed it
> into a windows app.  I'm starting a process in the background for irb
> and I want to pass input to it and read output from it.  It's
> interactive, it's just indirectly interactive so irb doesn't print the
> prompt and dies immediately on error instead of printing the message and
> staying alive.

Rob, you could look at fxri (http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxri) how
they do it. It's a part of the one-click-installer.

Regards,
Pit