From: montana <montana@...99.bsd.st>
Date: 2002-11-07T05:44:34+09:00
Subject: Newbie help configuring irb, please.

Hi Everyone-

I'm new to Ruby and just starting to learn the "pick axe":)

I am running the built-in "ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [powerpc-darwin6.0]" version of ruby on my TiBook running 10.2.1.

I would like to set-up irb to be able to go back in the history of commands in order to save on some typing. But when I press the up arrow, I get the standard terminal "^[[A" funk. How do I set irb to keep a history of my commands for future use? I figured you could do this with an .irbrc file, but I do not know what to add to the file to get it to do this.

Thanks in Advance for your help:)
SA