From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2009-03-25T01:26:59+09:00
Subject: Re: : HOWTO start irb on a different object

On 2009-03-24, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jeremy Henty wrote:
>> I wanted to have irb start its session on an object other than the
>> toplevel.
>
> This is what I have been using:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/244139

Yes, that's  what I  found too.  AFAICT  that solution copies  the irb
method that  doesn't quite do what  you want and modifies  the copy so
that it does do what you want.  I prefer my solution for being shorter
and simpler.  OTOH my solution monkey-patches the original irb method,
which is a point against it.

> I'm  not interested  in setting  up  a different  default object  in
> .irbrb, but rather being able to bolt irb onto an application object
> as an interactive CLI for testing/debugging.

That's what I  want too!  With my  solution I can put an  .irbrc in my
application directory  that makes  irb start up  in the context  of an
application object.  Which is useful.

Regards,

Jeremy Henty