From: Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@...>
Date: 2007-11-20T11:47:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Using irb as a REPL

On 11/19/07, S. Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 19, 9:07 pm, Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > hmmm, I've also had some problems trying to add a command interface to
> > some code.  I found trying to bend IRB to fit the needs seems to be
> > trickier than just coding up a solution in readline directly.  Is that
> > really the best solution?
> >
> > Cameron
>
> Then you miss out on the full power of Ruby in your interface!
> The beauty of using a REPL or IRB is that you have an easy command
> line interface, with automatic scripting when you need it, expandable
> to the full power of the host language as needed.

Sorry, I wasn't clear.  I'm talking about building a ruby library and
then the CLI with readline does a stateful eval.  Problem is that it
reimplements functionality that already exists in IRB.

Cameron