Works fine, but what about fixnums, floats and bignums?

Yeah, it seems to be calling an ugly to_s for Numeric.

Try replacing the Numeric line with:

ruby 1.8.2 (2005-04-11), if that’s the problem.

Hmm. Is there a way to distinguish RStruct-based instances from pure Ruby-land?

Who says it would be cool if irb indented your code for you?

I don’t want to go off topic or anything, and don’t want to joke about writing code in irb, but it already knows how deep you’re nested… It couldn’t be that hard to add two spaces to the prompt for each level down you go.

It would make me feel oh-so respected.

My wish would be for a command-line option that would run ruby in a debugger, but only go into debug mode when the program would terminate abnormally. -rdebug doesn’t do that, it goes into the debugger to start with. The reason for this wish is that one could poke around in the scope that caused the problem, see which variables hold what, etc.

the only one thing i don’t like about ruby – i waste quite alot of time debugging ruby. will it be better in 2.0 ? :o

jakdak: can you be more specific?

hgs: do you already know about ruby-breakpoint?

MenTaLguY : In particular I miss the Visual Studio style, step, watch, ‘what are all my variables doing’. Logging out at specific times just doesn’t cut it – and neither does ‘breakpoint’

(note that i am mostly talking about Rails here mind)

jakdak: Don’t waste your time. Start doing unit testing. I don’t understand how people write code in Ruby without any unit testing. There is no compiler for Ruby, you can’t even be sure that you named all your variables correctly.

kjell:

IRB.conf[:AUTO_INDENT] = true

kentuar: yes – i completly get you. something i’ve been thinking about – but to be honest – i don’t really know where to start ! any recommendations on guides ?

Hi. Im a nuub. Which folder do i put manners.irbrc in?? I’m running windows

Chris: ~ is the current users home directory under Linux, UNIX , et al. In Windows (2K/XP) this maps to

(works via Start > Run)

So, erhm, somewhere under that directory. Good luck finding the exact location…

Chris: Saving manners.irbrc as

should work. Note that Windows Explorer will probably bug you about the filename (starting with a dot) but saving it from another app (Notepad if you must) should work okay.