From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-10-29T18:28:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and irb

From: Paulo Carvalho [mailto:pjcarvalho@gmail.com] 
# Now instead of executing "irb --noreadline" is there a place 
# where i can put the "--noreadline" option to be executed always 
# when irb  is called?
# 
# My problem is that, i am debugging an application with the 
# "breakpoint" 
# instruction. This instruction opens an irb console. So I 
# would like that 
# the irb console to be called automatically with the 
# noreadline option...
# 
# Do you know how can I make it?

maybe, 2 ways

1. modify the irb shellscript (in windows it's a batch file)

or

2. create/modify your .irbrc file
if you have an existing .irbrc file (it's just a ruby file that irb loads by default if it exists), try putting the ff line (pref at the top) of th irbrc script

   ARGV.concat["--noreadline"]


the second option is more flexible and recommended, imho

kind regards -botp