From: _why <why@...>
Date: 2007-11-20T12:42:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Using irb as a REPL

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:25:00AM +0900, S. Robert James 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.

There's an example of this in Shoes:

  http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/shoes/trunk/samples/irb.rb

The MimickIRB class just wraps IRB's RubyLex class in a very simple
REPL.  I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for
(since it doesn't do debugging, .irbrc, or frames) but it's nice if
you want to start your own from nothing.

_why