From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2011-01-05T16:37:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ripl - an irb alternative - 0.3.0 released

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Quintus <sutniuq@gmx.net> wrote:
> Maybe a new hope for embedding an interactive Ruby in my GUI
> application? Some months ago, I posted on this list with the subject of
> embedding IRB in my GUI application for debugging purposes or just for
> users who want to have fast access to the things they're working with.
> But trying to make IRB read from something else as STDIN is a real
> nightmare and nearly impossible on a Windows system, not to mention
> across platforms.
> I'm interested. Is it possible to make ripl read from and write to an
> arbitrary IO object?

Give my guirb project a look: https://github.com/martindemello/guirb

Right now there are tk and fox backends, I'm planning on adding gtk
and qt support, and would be happy to accept contributed modules for
other gui toolkits, subject to their installing painlessly on ruby 1.9

martin