From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2009-03-26T07:16:51+09:00
Subject: Re: : HOWTO start irb on a different object

On 2009-03-24, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 24.03.2009 17:25, Jeremy Henty wrote:
>> ... I can put an .irbrc  in my application directory that makes irb
>> start up in the context of an application object.
>
> But wouldn't you have to start irb then with either
>
> HOME=. irb
>
> or with other options in order to make it read the local .irbrc?

No,  because irb  automatically  looks  for a  .irbrc  in the  current
working directory as well as in $HOME.

> Btw, if you can make IRB read a "local" .irbrc already, then you can
> as well place code in there like
>
> application = whatever_initialization()
> irb application
> exit

That doesn't work: "load error: /tmp/user/jeremy/.irbrc NoMethodError:
undefined   method  `irb'  for   main:Object".   Commands   like  "irb
application" only work after  irb starts its read-eval-print loop, and
it does  that *after* it  loads the config  file.  (I agree  that this
trick would make my hack redundant if it did work.)

Regards,

Jeremy Henty