Rib and .irbrc files

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Hi,

Up till now I've just had a single .irbrc file in one directory (gemplay) which does a require_relative to the individual files in my gem so that when working on the gem I don't have to uninstall and reinstall the gem again with small changes and I've just been running irb from that one directory.

I've recently wanted to be in a position where if I'm in any other directory and start irb I want it to load the gem using require 'gem_name'. I thought I'd be able to achieve that by adding a .irbrc file to my home directory while keeping the old behaviour when starting .irbrc from the (gemplay) directory. I get the opposite behaviour to what I was expecting, and the documentation confirms that my expectations were wrong:

http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/irb.html

that the home directory .irbrc file has highest priority and it can't be overridden by the .irbrc file in the working directory.

Is there a clean workaround?, or do I need to do a check in the home directory .irbrc file to see if there is a .irbrc file in the working directory and load that (if that is even possible) and also to check that the working directory is not the home directory.

Thanks
Kevin

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Yes, that would be the proper solution IMHO. I checked a shell
function as alternative but could not find a good way to make irb load
a specific file. You may be pull off something by using ruby -r irb
-e 'IRB.start' but that seems overly complicated to me.

Kind regards

robert

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On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Kevin Meaney <ktam@yvs.eu.com> wrote:

Is there a clean workaround?, or do I need to do a check in the home directory .irbrc file to see if there is a .irbrc file in the working directory and load that (if that is even possible) and also to check that the working directory is not the home directory.

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