From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2002-01-13T04:49:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Easy way to interactively use Ruby with program


From: "Brett Williams" <vor_lord@hotmail.com>
>
[...]
> Basically, the program needs to do a lot of startup work, and then give
> control of the program to the user, with all modules, classes, variables,
> and methods available at the prompt.
> 
> It seems like there should just be something like irb -f <script>

Yeah I imagine there's a nicer/simpler solution than:

  require "irb/main"
  IRB.start

...but that's what I've been doing.  That is, appending the above
to my main program.rb file, and executing it with ruby, not irb.

Hope this helps. . .

Regards,

Bill