From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2009-03-26T19:16:49+09:00
Subject: Re: : HOWTO start irb on a different object

On 2009-03-26, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/25 Jeremy Henty <onepoint@starurchin.org>:
>>
>> ...  irb �automatically  �looks  �for a  �.irbrc  �in the  �current
>> working directory as well as in $HOME.
>
> I tested that but my versions apparently do not:
> [...]
> What am I missing?

Sonething that I didn't understand: irb only loads the first .irbrc it
finds.  I have no  ~/.irbrc so it loads the local one.   You do have a
~/.irbrc so it loads that and  ignores any local one.  Frankly I think
that's broken (irb, I mean, not  your system of course).  It's easy to
work  around by  having  ~/.irbrc  include the  local  .irbrc but  you
shouldn't have to do that.  How annoying!

Regards,

Jeremy Henty