From: Brett Williams <vor_lord@...>
Date: 2002-01-13T13:07:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Easy way to interactively use Ruby with program

I lose control of ARGV this way.  Perhaps some variant of this would get
things going ok.  But I believe that even should I work out that problem,
loading a file doesn't give you access to the variables etc that were
created during the execution of the script (when you do a load, they are in
a different scope... right?)

The previous tip from Bill Kelly, to run IRB.start at the end of the script
unfortunately didn't work either.  I can't seem to get IRB to work properly
without it trying to open some kind of file.  Perhaps I should mention I am
working with a fairly recent CVS snapshot (irb/main didn't even load).

"Massimiliano Mirra" <list@chromatic-harp.com> wrote in message
news:20020112204715.A5517@prism.localnet...
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:26:36AM +0900, Brett Williams wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Does running irb and then:
>
> load '/path/to/initfile.rb'
>
> do what you want?
>
> Massimiliano
>