From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-08-26T01:09:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Simulating a TTY?


> I'm trying to write something like a terminal emulator for use inside a
> wxRuby GUI as a debugging console in the current context or just as a
> possibility to issue some fast commands rather than clicking around. I
> have to problems with this:
> 
> 1. I wanted to use IRB to just allow the user to enter Ruby code in the
> current project context, but IRB seems to only read from STDIN. I didn't
> find a possibility to direct IRB somewhere else. So, is there one or can
> I give up on this?

A few related projects that might help:

live console [1] monkey patches irb to allow it to receive from a socket 
(probably not quite what you wanted...)
as does fxri
[1] http://github.com/pete/live-console/blob/master/lib/live_console.rb

redcar also has a "REPL" which "is like" IRB (without ever using irb 
though).

GL.
-r
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