From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-07-28T16:27:11+09:00
Subject: Re: irbrc location under windows

> Hello,
>
>     Where does irb look for the irbrc file under windows? I tried
> c:\ruby\bin\.irbrc etc. I found on the pickaxe that there is  ~/.irbrc,
> .irbrc, irb.rc, _irbrc, and $irbrc. But it doesn't give any absolute
> paths (same in irb sources).

I don't use native windows Ruby, but my advice is create a HOME
environment variable, equal to "your" directory.  (I use D:/home/gavin,
for instance.)

I'm pretty confident that if you do that, and restart cmd.exe (or however
you run irb), then irb will look in you HOME directory for .irbrc etc.

Gavin