From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2002-08-27T12:15:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug report: $irbrc does not affect IRB

Hi,

Brian Marick <marick@testing.com> writes:

> In both the IRB from Ruby 1.6.4 and irb-0.9-02.07.03.tgz from RAA, 
> there appears to be a bug in the handling of $irbrc: it's ignored.
> 
> I think the problem is in init.rb, here:
> 
> def IRB.run_config
>      if @CONF[:RC]
>        rcs = []
>        rcs.push File.expand_path("~/.irbrc") if ENV.key?("HOME")
>        rcs.push ".irbrc"
>        rcs.push "irb.rc"
>        rcs.push "_irbrc"
>        rcs.push "$irbrc"        ### Here
>        # now try each file.
> 
> Note the quotes around "$irbrc". I suggest the last line read like this:
> 
>        rcs.push $irbrc if $irbrc
> 
> That works when I try it.

A file name called $irbrc exists for BOW.
BOW stands for "BSD on Windows".

  http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/detail/4-7561/4-7561-0305-7.html
  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/2405
  Both are written in Japanese.

However, BOW is hardly used any longer and don't refer to
this file name for it.

-- 
eban