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Extending Your irb

by Zach Inglis —

As a Ruby developer, you probably spend a reasonable amount of time in script/console or irb. What you may not have known was that you can extend and give your irb more functionality and make your life easier. I’d like to introduce you to ~/.irbrc. This article will explain how to extend your irb and all the tips and tricks you will need to know.

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matthewl —

Managed to find the link to this article, assuming of course that it was Zach that wrote it!

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There was some stray HTML. Fixed :)

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