From: Gilles Filippini <gilles.filippini@...>
Date: 2002-06-15T03:13:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedding irb

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
> Gilles Filippini wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It must be a basic question, but I didn't find any answer:
> > How to embed an IRB session into a ruby app ?
> 
> This is one way to do it for a command line app (i.e., without changing
> stdin/out). It works well, but I do wish IRB made this a bit easier. The
> obj argument to start_session will be self when the session starts up.
> 
> require 'irb'
> require 'irb/completion'
> 
[snip]

Thanks a lot. It's just what I was looking for.
In the meantime I've found this:

	http://www.ruby-talk.org/blade/31020

|  require "irb/main"
|  IRB.start

How is it different from your solution?
Thanks for your help.

_gilles.