From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-11-07T04:26:32+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get ruby interactive when some condition or error ocurred?

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 04:05:51 +0900, ahoward wrote:
>On 6 Nov 2002, Phil Tomson wrote:
>># some code
>># ...
>>IRB::start $STDIN if flag
>>puts "Okie dokey"
>>I neve saw "Okie dokey" after exiting irb.  Is there any way to do
>>that?
>'return' instead of 'exit'...

Or you could catch SystemExit

require 'irb'

puts "Before IRB"

begin
    IRB::start $STDIN
rescue SystemExit
end

puts "Okie dokey"

produces

Before IRB
irb(main):001:0> quit
Okie dokey

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.11.06 at 14.23.40