~/.irbrc will do - so you just kind of Dir.glob('~/.m2/*.jar').each { |jar| load jar }

@kares , I made a ~/.irbrc and placed the command in but it doesn't seem to work with jirb.

Say for example, I wish to import require '~/commons-math3-3.6.1' automatically everytime I run jruby -S pry`.

Shouldn't one prefer pry since it offers code-completion?

@abhi18av if the require did not fail than it must have done something

you could also do $CLASSPATH << File.expand_path('~/commons-math3-3.6.1/commons-math.jar') instead
make sure the .jar exists (maybe validate the dir/jar pieeces you add to $CLASSPATH)

jirb is just irb (you can do a puts line to verify it loaded fine). regarding pry there's a .pryrc.

the tracker is more-less for issues or for q that might be bugs.
would ask around on SO/IRC or the mailing-list if you have questions like whether "pry is better since it offers code-completion" :)

Sure @kares , I understand :)
Thank you for your time 👍

@abhi18av @kares I would not suggest the blanket require kares mentioned (since on my system you would likely run out of memory including that many jars) but the glob itself did not work because it did not contain '**': p Dir.glob(%q{/Users/enebo/.m2/**.jar}) . I would consider making some small method with artifact name and artifact version which globbed out what you want to require since over time you will also end up with n copies of the same library in .m2/repository (it is the maven way).

I need to give my 2 cents as well: Jars.require_jar 'de.regnis.q.sequence', 'sequence-library', '1.0.2' will require the jar from default local maven repository, i.e. from ~/.m2/
but that might be not so helpful as you need to resolve all your jars manually. but you will not load the same artifact with different versions in your classloader which will most likely happen with the glob approach.