From: Philip McDonald <philip_mcdonald@...>
Date: 2009-02-20T00:52:13+09:00
Subject: irb login not reading irbrc file

Hi List!

I am beginning to learn Ruby ( vers. 1.8.6) , and I am using OS X  
(10.5.4), and accessing irb through terminal.  On OS X, irb loads from  
a /etc/irbrc file that includes the 'simple prompt' code.  I don't  
like the simple prompt, and am trying to create my own irbrc for irb  
to read when it logs in.

Firstly, the general instructions are to create a ~/.irbrc file, which  
I understand as an instruction to create a simple txt file, which I  
have called variously ".irbrc", "$irbrc", and " ".irbrc" ", and placed  
in a 'ruby' folder under my home directory (my 'mac' house on the  
finder)

I then put the code:	IRB.conf[:PROMPT_MODE][:DEFAULT] = {:PROMPT_I =>  
"%N(%m):%03n:%i>
					end


saved it, then exited terminal, restarted it, and logged back into irb.

STILL getting the simple prompt, and the 'double tab' auto-completion  
thing still works (also a part of the OSX etc irbrc file) so I know  
that irb is not reading my irbrc file.


What am I doing wrong?  I've searched and searched, and I seem to be  
following the general instructions pretty well.

cheers and thanks for your time

mac