irb command history searching

October 20th, 2008
Posted by David Lowenfels
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irb ruby

Just another little thing I love about ruby and the way it follows the Principle of Least Surprise: command history searching in irb with ctrl-R.


[aurora:~/work/scrumninja/trunk] dfl% irb
(reverse-i-search)`find': Project.find(1).stories.each(&:destroy)

I <3 Ruby! :)

1 Response to “irb command history searching”

  1. Akhil Bansal Says:
    December 14th, 2008 at 07:49 AM

    Great! I didn't know that it also work for irb, I thought it only works for linux shells.

    Thanks for sharing it

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