Irbrc location under windows

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1

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 also found
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=p05111b2
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wg and
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=20030622
185155.GA55150%40uk.tiscali.com&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dirbrc%2Bwindows%26
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40uk.tiscali.com%26rnum%3D3 but i found no definitive answer.
Neither with the .irbrc (or irb.rc for that matter) in the current dir
when typing irb nor with it in c:\ruby\bin is it executed.

thank you,

emmanuel

2

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

3

Hi,

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At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:11:04 +0900, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:

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).

~ means the directory given by HOME environment variable.
Others are placed in the current directory.

–
Nobu Nakada

4

Thank you Gavin! it works very well… But now i have another question. I use
irb completion under linux, but under windows it doesn’t seem to work (due
to the lack of readline). From a quick google, it seems it works under
ruby-cygwin, but not under the PragProg windows native version. is this
correct?

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=kl6nvu86
sp936dmb5c72d7p5cbg48c317v%404ax.com&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%2
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g

C:>irb
irb(main):001:0> require ‘irb/completion’
LoadError: No such file to load – readline
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/completion.rb:10:in require' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/completion.rb:10 from (irb):1:in require’
from (irb):1:in irb_binding' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/workspace.rb:51:in irb_binding’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/irb/workspace.rb:51
Maybe IRB bug!!

thank you,

emmanuel

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----- Original Message -----
From: “Gavin Sinclair” gsinclair@soyabean.com.au
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:27 AM
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

5

It used to work under my Cygwin before I upgraded to 1.8. I vaguely
remember instructing irb to support completion at some point, but I
don’t remember the details…

Gavin

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On Monday, July 28, 2003, 5:38:11 PM, Emmanuel wrote:

Thank you Gavin! it works very well… But now i have another question. I use
irb completion under linux, but under windows it doesn’t seem to work (due
to the lack of readline). From a quick google, it seems it works under
ruby-cygwin, but not under the PragProg windows native version. is this
correct?

6

Someone did a pure ruby readline once. I wonder if irb ought to fall
back to that.

martin

···

Emmanuel Touzery emmanuel.touzery@wanadoo.fr wrote:

Thank you Gavin! it works very well… But now i have another question. I use
irb completion under linux, but under windows it doesn’t seem to work (due
to the lack of readline). From a quick google, it seems it works under
ruby-cygwin, but not under the PragProg windows native version. is this
correct?