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Rafa H
Rafa H

Reputation: 33

Is it possible to place the .irbrc file in the project folder?

I would like to place the .irbrc file in my project folder to configure the irb console just for that specific project. I am aware that i can configure .irbrc placing it in the home folder but i would like to avoid that, i just want to require all the files of my project when i get into the console, but i am not looking for a permanent behaviour I am trying to place .irbrc file in the project root but it does not seem to be requiring anything if i place it there. Is it possible to do it??. Any suggestion would be much appreciated. Thank you so much

Upvotes: 3

Views: 843

Answers (2)

stevec
stevec

Reputation: 52738

Just adding a note that helped me:

Is it possible to place the .irbrc file in the project folder?

Yes, you most certainly can, as explained by @Alex:

you should be able to add .irbrc file into your project directory, no extra steps required.

Just create a file called .irbrc in your app's root directory. Then you can add configs to it (in my case I added this solitary line IRB.conf[:USE_PAGER] = false).

Note: I think when .irbrc is present, opening the rails console will create an .irb_history file, which you may wish to add to .gitignore.

Upvotes: 0

m26a
m26a

Reputation: 1413

Does your project have a ./bin/console file? Probably that's what you're looking for.

Here is some information about it: Your Ruby App Should Have a bin/console.

However, you can pass another file to be loaded in irb:

IRBRC="~/Documents/.irbrc" irb

You can look at how irb loads it in init.rb, if you're interested.

Upvotes: 2

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