From: Leonard Chin <l.g.chin@...>
Date: 2007-10-29T18:34:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and irb

Hi

On 10/29/07, Paulo Carvalho <pjcarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes you are right. Thank you.
>
> 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?


Try putting the following option in your .irbrc file

IRB.conf[:USE_READLINE] = nil

The pickaxe has more:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/irb.html