Very cool stuff. Keep in mind also that this could be embedded in any app (like an IDE) to provide a really nice looking interactive console. Thanks Damian!
Monday, December 4, 2006
JRuby IRB Applet Revisited
Damian Steer, regular JRuby contributor, has taken the IRB applet and run with it. He's gotten readline working (history, line editing, tab-completion), added some fonts and colors to differentiate things, and even put in an intellisense-like menu for tab completion of method names.
Very cool stuff. Keep in mind also that this could be embedded in any app (like an IDE) to provide a really nice looking interactive console. Thanks Damian!
Very cool stuff. Keep in mind also that this could be embedded in any app (like an IDE) to provide a really nice looking interactive console. Thanks Damian!
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I'll update this soon with a standard swing widget for completion (now I've finally found one). Looks a bit odd in linux. Once that's done I'll port it to ruby, which will remove a nasty hack, and allow others to play.
ReplyDeleteThe colours are muted because I'm colour blind and stick to a conservative pallet :-) Suggestions welcome.
Damian -
ReplyDeleteCould you share your source code? I'm really interested to see how you did these things.
Thanks - AYAL
fantastic stuff. would be a great method to offer to allow people to try out your new classes etc.
ReplyDelete--> is there an easy way to
require 'mylib' ?
weepie
weepie:
ReplyDeleteNot hard. Grab the jruby source, install your lib (in lib/ruby/site_ruby), then:
ant jar-complete
Simple enough?
is there any place on the web where I can use a working jruby irb applet?
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