Reputation: 9014

~/.irbrc not executed when starting irb or script/console

Here's what I've tried:

1. gem install awesome_print
2. echo "require 'ap'" >> ~/.irbrc
3. chmod u+x ~/.irbrc
4. script/console
5. ap { :test => 'value' }

Result:

NameError: undefined local variable or method `ap' for #

Upvotes: 10

Answers (6)

Martin Streicher

Reputation: 2041

Do check whether the application is using Pry or Debug. For the former, edit .pryrc; the latter uses .irbrc.

You can edit .pryrc in your repository directory. The local directory and $HOME is scanned for the dot file.

Upvotes: 0

Nathan Long

Reputation: 126122

Your Rails Console May Be Using Pry

Based on the suggestions that ~/.irbrc must be invalid, I reduced mine to a single puts "hi", and although it output when I ran irb, it did not when I ran rails console.

I finally noticed that the prompt was pry(main). It turned out that this Rails project is set up with the pry-rails gem, so that's what the console uses. Customizing .pryrc does the trick.

Upvotes: 13

Stian Håklev

Reputation: 1290

To check what in .irbrc is failing, just execute .irbrc as a normal Ruby script (ruby ~/.irbrc), and Ruby will tell you which line fails. It might complain that IRB module is missing, just require 'irb' in the script (you only need this when testing it, not when actually running IRB).

Upvotes: 20