From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2009-03-25T03:12:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q&A]: HOWTO start irb on a different object

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Jeremy Henty <onepoint@starurchin.org> wrote:
> 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 .

Oh, by default? I've been carrying around code in my ~/.irbrc to load
local .irbrc for years, and didn't know anyone else did that :)

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

Yeah, sure. Like I said, I've never really needed it to happen
automatically, but it's definitely a cool hack when you do.

Ben