From: Radek Hnilica <Radek@...>
Date: 2002-11-29T21:18:28+09:00
Subject: inwoking irb from the middle of things

	Hello,

i know that i can inwoke irb from middle of program, the smallest
example is:

iowa@moon:~/testing$ cat inwokeirb.rb 
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'irb'
def main
        a = 5
        IRB::start $STDIN
        puts "After IRB: a=#{a}"
end
main
# EOF

But I can't do anything useful from the irb session.  What I want to
do is look arround int variables and probably change their values.

iowa@moon:~/testing$ ./inwokeirb.rb 
irb(main):001:0> p a
NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for #<Object:0x401b5a24>
        from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0> a = 2
=> 2
irb(main):003:0> quit
After IRB: a=5
# End of sesion

In this time I'm living at the edge:
iowa@moon:~/testing$ ruby -v
ruby 1.7.3 (2002-11-27) [i686-linux]

The nearest goal is to fiddle with ruby interactively in some
checkpoints in the program.

The far goal is to have fully interactive environment where in time of
failure the program doesn't end but fires interactive session.

Maybe I'm on the wrong road and have to go another direction.

-- 
Radek Hnilica <Radek at Hnilica dot CZ>
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