From: "S. Robert James" <srobertjames@...>
Date: 2007-11-20T08:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Using irb as a REPL

On Nov 19, 6:21 pm, "S. Robert James" <srobertja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lisp programmers often use the REPL (similar to IRB) as a simple way
> to make an interactive interface to their app.  I'd like to do the
> same thing with irb - that is, define my classes, and load irb in the
> context.
>
> I can get about half way there:
>
>  require 'irb'
>  IRB.start
>  my_class = MyClass.new(...) # I want this to be the context
>  irb my_class
>
> ...works, but you have to type "quit" to load.  Is there a better way
> to leverage IRB from within my code?  What do the Ruby hackers say? (I
> know a lot have a Lisp background, and so wouldn't want Ruby to not
> have a REPL shell...)

Another, similar problem with the above:
 irb my_class
 conf.prompt_mode = :SIMPLE # This line is ignored