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I've seen a ton of useless Ruby shells, and while this one looks much better, I think it's still going at it the wrong way. You should start by trying to replac
by blasdel 18y ago
I've seen a ton of useless Ruby shells, and while this one looks much better, I think it's still going at it the wrong way. You should start by trying to replace irb, not bash.
IPython worked it's way into my workflow because I wanted a richer "real language" REPL, and now I end up using its shell capabilities sometimes. If I had started out trying to use it as a shell it would have failed at that miserably, even though it's the best implementation I know of.
- dfj225 18y agoI find it hard to believe that with all the development going on in the ruby world, there still isn't something comparable to IPython. To be honest, IPython is one of the reasons I use python over ruby. It's just a great way to interact with the language and my code.
- jamongkad 18y agoIt seems the ruby world is getting alot of press these days. Deservedly so, but taking a look at the kind of mind share they have in community it will only be a matter of time until they come with something like iPython.
- dfj225 18y agoToday, IPython has a lot of features, but I only use a small subset of them on a daily basis (namely their shell interface). I would think that a decent ruby hacker could throw something similar together in a weekend, put it online and have a decently stable version in a month or so.
- jamongkad 18y agoUpvote for iPython. The best implementation of the Python REPL I've seen so far.