From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2009-03-25T02:56:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q&A]: HOWTO start irb on a different object

On 2009-03-24, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:

> Do you  find that you often want  to start irb in  the same object's
> context?

You're right that  there's little reason to use  this hook in ~/.irbrc
but as I  remarked elsewhere in the thread, irb will  pick up a .irbrc
from the  current directory as well  as from the  home directory.  And
it's very  common for  me to want  to start  irb in the  same object's
context whenever I'm  running irb in a particular  directory.  With my
hack I get that just by creating a *local* .irbrc .

> When  I want  to get  into a  new object,  I usually  just  use "irb
> that_object" from inside irb.

Sure,  that works.   I just  like  having a  way to  make that  happen
automatically.

Regards,

Jeremy Henty