interactive editor in irb
Drew Neil has made it the subject of one of his vimcasts:
vimcasts #20: running Vim within IRB, and Chad Perrin has written an
article about it on TechRepublic:
Use interactive_editor with irb for an inside-out Ruby IDE.
There’s also an outdated blog post which predates the gem from 2009:
Integrating vim and IRB.
$ gem install interactive_editor
Put the following in your .irbrc:
require 'rubygems'
require 'interactive_editor'
Then, from within irb:
$ irb # or ripl
> vi # (use vi w/ temp file)
> vi 'filename.rb' # (open filename.rb in vi)
> ed # (use EDITOR env variable)
> [emacs|vim|mvim|nano|mate] # (other editors)
Bonus: editing of objects on the fly (inspired by _why’s object aorta)
$ irb
> { 'chunky' => 'bacon' }.vi
To try it out without installing the gem:
$ git clone git://github.com/jberkel/interactive_editor.git
$ cd interactive_editor
$ rake console
interactive_editor also works with the IRB alternatives ripl and pry.
Giles Bowkett, Greg Brown, and several audience members from Giles’ Ruby East
presentation: Use vi or any text editor from within
IRB.
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