Is there any way to save current job to a file in irb?

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Or is there any tool to take place of it?

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Kuang Dong wrote:

Or is there any tool to take place of it?

1. Please put your message in your message, rather than in the subject line.

2. Have you considered using a text editor to create a Ruby source file? It
is way more efficient than trying to create a program in irb, then losing
it.

"irb" is meant for testing things, not writing computer programs. As soon as
you find yourself entering "do" or "{" into irb, it is time to open a text
editor.

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Kuang Dong wrote:

Or is there any tool to take place of it?

You can put this in your .irbrc:

def dump_history(file=nil)
   if file
     File.open(file, "w") do |f|
       f.puts IRB::ReadlineInputMethod::HISTORY.to_a
     end
   else
     puts IRB::ReadlineInputMethod::HISTORY.to_a
   end
end

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Kuang Dong wrote:

Or is there any tool to take place of it?

I use SCITE to test program fragments and can then save the code.

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Michael W. Ryder wrote:

Kuang Dong wrote:
> Or is there any tool to take place of it?
>

I use SCITE to test program fragments and can then save the code.

There's this, also

http://irb-history.rubyforge.org/rdoc/