Is there an equivalent in irb to the command history in bash?

After I've been doing a bunch of work in the shell I often use the
history command in bash to get a list of all the commands I've
executed which I copy and past into an editor to document the work I
did.

Is there an equivalent command for irb which would list by lines each
command I have entered? Rightnow I use readline to scan backwards
and copy and paste individually.

Thanks for any suggestions.

On Nov 18, 10:44 pm, Stephen Bannasch <stephen.banna...@deanbrook.org>
wrote:
> Is there an equivalent in irb to the command history in bash?
>
> After I've been doing a bunch of work in the shell I often use the
> history command in bash to get a list of all the commands I've
> executed which I copy and past into an editor to document the work I
> did.
>
> Is there an equivalent command for irb which would list by lines each
> command I have entered? Rightnow I use readline to scan backwards
> and copy and paste individually.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

I think this irb_history business from Ben Bleything is what you want:
http://blog.bleything.net/pages/irb_history

HTH,
Chris

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007, Chris Shea wrote:
> I think this irb_history business from Ben Bleything is what you want:
> http://blog.bleything.net/pages/irb_history

I think so too

Ben

>On Mon, Nov 19, 2007, Chris Shea wrote:
>> I think this irb_history business from Ben Bleything is what you want:
>> http://blog.bleything.net/pages/irb_history
>
>I think so too
>

Thanks ... perfect ;-)

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Hi, Ben. really great work,

One more feature request: Why not auto save the history in .irb_history,
just like what the history of bash does?

sishen

On Nov 19, 2007 3:27 PM, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007, Chris Shea wrote:
> > I think this irb_history business from Ben Bleything is what you want:
> > http://blog.bleything.net/pages/irb_history
>
> I think so too
>
> Ben
>
>

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007, sishen wrote:
> Hi, Ben. really great work,

Thanks!

> One more feature request: Why not auto save the history in .irb_history,
> just like what the history of bash does?

So that's something that should probably be documented better. The code
that I wrote relies on pre-existing history enabler code. It is meant
as a supplement to something like Michael Granger's persistent IRB
history:

http://www.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/.../TipsAndTricks

or Wirble (gem install wirble), which just packages the above with some
other IRB hacks. If you set up Michael's code or install wirble and
enable history, it'll save your history between sessions.

My code does not replace that stuff; it serves a different purpose.
Mine is about accessing the history you already have. I've been meaning
to re-open a conversation I was having with wirble's author over a year
ago, to get my code included there. Once that happens (if Paul is still
interested), you'll be able to just install/enable wirble and have all
your history goodies for free.

Hope that answers your question

Ben

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Ben Bleything wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007, Chris Shea wrote:
>> I think this irb_history business from Ben Bleything is what you want:
>> http://blog.bleything.net/pages/irb_history
>
> I think so too
>
> Ben

Ben, don't you want to add a link from the blog entry to where people can
get the chunk of code that will perform the magic?
*t

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On Tue, Nov 20, 2007, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 19, 2007, Chris Shea wrote:
> >>I think this irb_history business from Ben Bleything is what you want:
> >>http://blog.bleything.net/pages/irb_history
>
> Ben, don't you want to add a link from the blog entry to where people can
> get the chunk of code that will perform the magic?

The link from the thread takes you to the actual code, and both blog
posts (linked below) link to it as well. Maybe it's not obvious enough?
Or are you talking about a different page?

http://blog.bleything.net/2006/10/21...istory-for-irb
http://blog.bleything.net/2007/7/30/...-fixed-edition

Ben

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Cool~,

On Nov 20, 2007 5:07 AM, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007, sishen wrote:
> > Hi, Ben. really great work,
>
> Thanks!
>
> > One more feature request: Why not auto save the history in .irb_history,
> > just like what the history of bash does?
>
> So that's something that should probably be documented better. The code
> that I wrote relies on pre-existing history enabler code. It is meant
> as a supplement to something like Michael Granger's persistent IRB
> history:
>
> http://www.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/.../TipsAndTricks
>
> or Wirble (gem install wirble), which just packages the above with some
> other IRB hacks. If you set up Michael's code or install wirble and
> enable history, it'll save your history between sessions.
>
> My code does not replace that stuff; it serves a different purpose.
> Mine is about accessing the history you already have. I've been meaning
> to re-open a conversation I was having with wirble's author over a year
> ago, to get my code included there. Once that happens (if Paul is still
> interested), you'll be able to just install/enable wirble and have all
> your history goodies for free.
>
> Hope that answers your question
>
> Ben
>
>

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Ben Bleything wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007, Chris Shea wrote:
>>>> I think this irb_history business from Ben Bleything is what you want:
>>>> http://blog.bleything.net/pages/irb_history
>>
>> Ben, don't you want to add a link from the blog entry to where people can
>> get the chunk of code that will perform the magic?
>
> The link from the thread takes you to the actual code, and both blog
> posts (linked below) link to it as well. Maybe it's not obvious enough?
> Or are you talking about a different page?
>
> http://blog.bleything.net/2006/10/21...istory-for-irb
> http://blog.bleything.net/2007/7/30/...-fixed-edition

Oh, I was coming from the "RubyConf stuff" blog entry which AFAICS doesn't
have a pointer to the code. I didn't verify the other blog entries links
:-o
*t

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On Tue, Nov 20, 2007, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:
> Oh, I was coming from the "RubyConf stuff" blog entry which AFAICS doesn't
> have a pointer to the code. I didn't verify the other blog entries links
> :-o

Woops! You're right, and I should fix that. And now I have. Thanks

Ben