Fir: A Friendly, Interactive Ruby REPL

https://www.nasseri.io/posts/2.html

by nasseri • 9 years ago

96 12 9 years ago

gkya3• 8 years ago

The best interactive environment I've ever used (and still use) is an Emacs buffer with an associated inferior process. The default keybindings for Ruby mode interaction with inferior-ruby are a bit lacking, I have made a couple customisations for myself that can be helpful: https://www.gkayaalp.com/gk.html#orgf0bce87 .

weaksauce• 8 years ago

Wow! that's some serious customization to your emacs config and well documented too. impressive.

gkya3• 8 years ago

Thanks!

pvg2• 8 years ago

Very neat. Do your maintain this by hand or generate it with something? (Unrelated but computer program is 'program' even in British spelling).

gkya3• 8 years ago

Thanks! I use org-mode and org-babel to generate this, and hook it up into org-publish which I use to publish all of my website. Org-babel is a literate programming extension to org mode that allows you to embed code in any language in your org mode document and execute them or export to many formats.

stevekemp• 8 years ago

If you enjoy this style of literate documentation, then you might enjoy my personal Emacs configuration too (it is smaller). The following should be placed in ~/.emacs/init.el:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.el

That reads and parses the following Markdown file, which contains documentation for humans and indented code-blocks which are executed by Emacs:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md

adrianlmm• 8 years ago

I tried to use it in Windows and looked like this:

https://imgur.com/a/ete0V

hartator2• 8 years ago

You probably better using Bash for Win 10. It's native now.

mhd• 8 years ago

Or downgrade a few versions and run ANSI.SYS.

baldfat• 8 years ago

Try this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/opensuse-leap-42/9nj...

Its for OpenSUSE instead of Ubuntu because I like OpenSUSE more especially comparing apt-get syntax to zypper.

zypper refresh actually refreshes the repos and not apt-get update that doesn't update anything

zypper update actually updates the packages and not apt-get upgrade

zypper dist-upgrade moves from one release to the next as opposed to apt full-upgrade because apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't remove programs with a conflict. UGH!!!!!

zypper search actually searches for packages as opposed to apt-cache search

/rant over

WHY did chocolatey go with the debian apt-get syntax :(

hartator2• 8 years ago

Really cool, you don't really need to list all the emacs commands in the Readme. Even if is where most of the work went.

I would love to help. I can try to implement some of the pry features into Fir or work on a Rails integration ala pry-rails.

Fir: A Friendly, Interactive Ruby REPL

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