Ruby + irb + utility-belt + gedit = :)

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

In September 2008, Akita wrote an interesting post about utility-belt, a gem that adds several features to irb (it’s a bit like giving irb a Red Bull). Some of its features include:

Launching Vi or TextMate from irb, letting you quickly write or paste some code, save it, close the editor, and test it in irb without creating a file and saving it in a directory.
Viewing a command history by typing “h”.
Opening the history in TextMate or Vi using hvi or hmate.
Watch Akita’s screencast to see how it works.

So far, so good. But the big problem is that I use Ubuntu with gedit to write Ruby code, and utility-belt doesn’t have specific methods for launching gedit. The utility-belt help offers edit_interactively(:gedit), but of course I couldn’t settle for that method; I wanted it to work the same way as it does with Vi or TextMate.

Gedit on Kind of Idea

Ruby + irb + utility-belt + gedit = :)