create a irb like console for my program

[Junkone]

hello
how do i create a irb like console for my ruby app. i am running on
windows fyi.

 

[Andrew Stewart]

how do i create a irb like console for my ruby app. i am running on
windows fyi.

Try Highline:

http://highline.rubyforge.org/

Regards,
Andy Stewart

 

[michael greenly]

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exposed to the end user? or just for development use?

If it's just development use you're after simply require 'your/lib' and go
to town? irb also loads .irbrc when it launches, first from the current
path then $HOME/.irbrc so you can create a .irbrc that preloads/configures
the debugging environment for you.

I don't have any experience embedding it ( I think that's what you're after?
)

 

[Giles Bowkett]

The easiest way to do it is just create a file for IRB to load which
contains everything you want it to have access to, then do

irb -r the_file.rb

and you're good to go.

exposed to the end user? or just for development use?

If it's just development use you're after simply require 'your/lib' and go
to town? irb also loads .irbrc when it launches, first from the current
path then $HOME/.irbrc so you can create a .irbrc that preloads/configures
the debugging environment for you.

I don't have any experience embedding it ( I think that's what you're after?
)

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[Marcin Raczkowski]

my hack that i use for quick debugging on my programs is

require 'pp'

# do some setup

$stdout.write("# "); $stdout.flush
while line = gets
pp eval(line)
$stdout.write("\n# "); $stdout.flush
# or
# pp main_object.instance_eval(line)
end

problem is of course that you have to make all your commands one-liners,
but aside from that it works like a charm