From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2007-12-03T03:15:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Running -r in IRB

> I'm quite sure that you're being instructed to run irb with -r and not 
> to type -r into irb. I.e:
> irb -rmyrubyfile

Or, if you are in irb, just do
  load 'myrubyfile'

or in your case
  load '99bottles.rb'

Normally -r indicates some command line switch,i.e. in use with
  ruby -r blablabla
not something you run inside irb.
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