Installation And Overview
Flyrb is a grab-bag of tricks, tools, techniques, trifles, and toys for IRB, including convenience methods, language patches, and useful extensions. It also includes a couple command-line widgets. Its primary inspirations were an awesome gem called Wirble and a blog post by Amy Hoy called "Secrets Of The Rails Console Ninjas".
INSTALL
sudo gem install flyrb
FEATURES
- Interactively edit IRB code in your preferred text editor
- Read from and write to OS X clipboard
- Post your code to Pastie with one command (OS X only)
- Kick-ass Unix-style history buffer
- Write command history to file or vi
- Grep classes and methods for strings
- Verbosity controls for regular IRB and Rails console
- Finder shortcuts for Rails console
- Upload shortcut for Amazon S3
- Command-line Amazon S3 upload script
- Command-line Google shortcut (OS X only)
- Auto-indentation
- _ special variable (like Unix shell var !!)
- Extremely basic themes for Wirble syntax coloring
- Pascal/JavaScript-style "with" statement
- String#to_proc
- Add and subtract Hashes with + and -
- Grammatically-correct is_an? method - no more "is_a? Array" statements
- One-character exit command
REQUIREMENTS
- ReadLine
- Wirble
- Amazon S3
- Platform
- Some features require OS X