From: Stefan Lang <perfectly.normal.hacker@...>
Date: 2009-02-20T01:12:00+09:00
Subject: Re: irb login not reading irbrc file

2009/2/19 Philip McDonald <philip_mcdonald@mac.com>:
> 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)

It must be directly in the home directory.

> 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
>
>