Ruby irb

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An interactive ruby interpreter (installed separately from ruby itself).

Install

sudo pacman -S ruby-irb

Environment

IRB_USE_AUTOCOMPLETE=false disable irb autocomplete


Configuration

# ~/.irbrc

IRB.conf[:USE_SINGLELINE] = true  # use 'readline' instead of multiline support

Usage

irb
irb --readline  # uses readline, but disables multiline editing

IRB.conf  # show current config