Jirb does not find .irbrc on Windows in "My Documents" #3675
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I think the doc is bad. Just put it in your home directory. The trick is that ENV['HOME'] needs to be set. Once that's done (and you've put your irbrc file there) it should work. |
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If I need to set a particular environment variable for this, wouldn't it maybe a more logical recommendation, to write in the docs that the variable IRBRC should be used? This variable is recognized on every platform. The docs could say - for instance: "If you are on Windows, which does not have the concept of a home directory, set the environment IRBRC to the absolute path of your .irbrc file". |
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True, it does look for IRBRC first, but either will work. Yes, the docs should be updated. |
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https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/GettingStarted#jirb-ruby-interactive-console states:
I have put a .irbrc file into my "My Documents" folder, containing the following lines:
STDOUT.puts "This is the .irbrc in 'My Documents'" $foo=555I'm invoking jirb as
c:\jruby-1.7.23\bin\jirb.batNeither the text is output, nor is the variable $foo set. I conclude, that my .irbrc has not been loaded.
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