From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-11-07T08:43:34+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get ruby interactive when some condition or error ocurred?

From: "Austin Ziegler" <austin@halostatue.ca>


> 
> 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

That's pretty damn useful.  Is there any way to do this with the debugger?

Gavin