From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T06:36:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Using irb as a REPL

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.
> 
> 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...)

This might help:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/244139

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