[ANN] Wirble 0.1.1: Irb Enhancements for the Masses

[Paul Duncan]

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Hi All,

I just released version 0.1.1 of Wirble. Wirble is a small collection
of enhancements Irb, packaged in an easy-to-use format. Wirble includes
tab-completion, persistent history, built-in ri support, and syntax
highlighting for Irb results. Here's a screenshot of Wirble in action:

http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/shots/wirble-0.png

All of Wirble's features are configurable, including the color settings.
Each is documented in glorious technicolor in the README, which is
linked below.

URLs
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* Wirble 0.1.1 Tarball
o Download: http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.tar.gz
o Signature: http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.tar.gz.asc
* Wirble 0.1.1 Gem
o Download: http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem
o Signature: http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem.asc
* Documentation
o Secret Decoder Ring: http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/README
o ChangeLog: http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/ChangeLog-0.1.1

If you've seen most of Wirble before, that's because, well, you've seen
most of Wirble before. Several of the features were collected from the
"Irb Tips and Tricks" page of the Ruby Garden Wiki. My Irb config file
was out of control, so I decided to clean things up and share the
results. =20

Questions, comments, candy, weapons of mass destruction, etc, are always
appreciated, and can be sent to the email address below.

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[benjohn]

Hi All,

I just released version 0.1.1 of Wirble. Wirble is a small collection
of enhancements Irb, packaged in an easy-to-use format. Wirble includes
tab-completion, persistent history, built-in ri support, and syntax
highlighting for Irb results. Here's a screenshot of Wirble in action:

That looks great! A feature request: Could you syntax highlight the
input lines as well as the output lines?

Cheers,
Benj

 

[William Crawford]

That looks great! A feature request: Could you syntax highlight the
input lines as well as the output lines?

Cheers,
Benj

Like, in real time, like an IDE? That'd be awesome.

 

[William Crawford]

-the coloring alters the output line"hee"
=> â†[0;32mnilâ†[0;0m

Those are ANSI codes. You'll need to use a console that deals with
them, or load ANSI.SYS.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kb...cellaneous/CommandInterpreterAnsiSupport.html

 

[John Wilger]

URLs
====

* Wirble 0.1.1 Gem
o Download: http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem
o Signature: http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem.asc

FYI, the gem file doesn't seem to exist. I tried both the URL abave
and RubyForge (which is specified n the README in the tarball).

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[F. Senault]

Le 08 septembre à 15:32, John Wilger a écrit :

FYI, the gem file doesn't seem to exist. I tried both the URL abave
and RubyForge (which is specified n the README in the tarball).

I found it there :

http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.1.gem

Nice little tool, BTW...

Fred

 

[Nicolas Olivier]

FYI, the gem file doesn't seem to exist. I tried both the URL abave
and RubyForge (which is specified n the README in the tarball).

http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.1.gem

 

[Paul Duncan]

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FYI, the gem file doesn't seem to exist. I tried both the URL abave
and RubyForge (which is specified n the README in the tarball).

That's what I get for doing a release at 4am .

All my gems are located at http://pablotron.org/files/gems/. So the
correct URLs for the Wirble gem are:

http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem
http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem.asc

Thanks for the heads up!

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Regards,
John Wilger
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[Paul Duncan]

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Hi Paul,
When I tried it on Windows XP, I get this wierd error:
I don't have rubilicious=20

Now that is bug is both hilarious and stupid.

I must have used the rubilcious gemspec as a template for the Wirble
gempsec .

I'll get that fixed and release a new version, stat.

irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
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irb(main):002:0> require 'wirble'
LoadError: no such file to load -- rubilicious
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21= :in `re
quire__'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21= :in `re
quire'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:182:in `activate'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:181:in `activate'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:26= :in `re
quire'
from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0>
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[William Crawford]

That's what I get for doing a release at 4am .

All my gems are located at http://pablotron.org/files/gems/. So the
correct URLs for the Wirble gem are:

http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem
http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem.asc

Thanks for the heads up!

Hmm... Maybe it's not just the 4am thing Maybe you have a mental
block dealing with gems and urls?

http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.1.gem
http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.1.gem.asc

</cough>

 

[Ben Bleything]

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All my gems are located at http://pablotron.org/files/gems/. So the
correct URLs for the Wirble gem are:
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http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem
http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.1.gem.asc

I think you mean...

http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.1.gem
http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.1.gem.asc



Ben

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[Paul Duncan]

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That looks great! A feature request: Could you syntax highlight the
input lines as well as the output lines?

I looked into highlighting the input in Irb, too. It's a lot more work,
but it might be doable. At a minimum, I'd need to write, borrow, or
steal a full-blown Ruby lexer. I'd probably need a more terminal-
friendly replacement for readlines (probably curses).

Now that I know more people are interested, I'll have to investigate .

Cheers,
Benj

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[Paul Duncan]

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Hmm... Maybe it's not just the 4am thing Maybe you have a mental=20
block dealing with gems and urls?

I pretty much just have a mental block. I don't think it's constrained
to gems or urls, either.

</cough>

Here we go:

http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.1.gem
http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.1.gem.asc

The only way I got those out was to copy and paste yours .

Thanks!

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[Paul Duncan]

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Le 08 septembre =E0 15:32, John Wilger a =E9crit :
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I found it there :
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Nice little tool, BTW...

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

Fred

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[Paul Duncan]

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-the coloring alters the output line

p "hee"

"hee"
=3D> ???[0;32mnil???[0;0m

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them, or load ANSI.SYS.
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iscellaneous/CommandInterpreterAnsiSupport.html

I'll add this to the documentation for future releases. Thanks!

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[Paul Duncan]

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Hi Paul,
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I take it that the windows masses are not concerned,...

Any problems on Windows are a direct result of sloth and incompetence on
my part, rather than intentional malice. I haven't done much console
development on Windows, and I don't have easy access to a Windows
machine for testing.

I have tried wirble on my windows laptop:
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-the gem install doesn't work

The URL in the original email was wrong and the gem had an accidental
dependency on Rubilicious. I've fixed the latter and regenerated the
former. Here's the URL:

http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.2.gem
http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.2.gem.asc

(Note: This version doesn't address the two issues you have below)

-the Object.ri sample brings an exec error
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Errno::ENOEXEC: Exec format error - ri 'object_h'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/wirble.rb:465:in ``'
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/wirble.rb:465:in `ri'
from (irb):1

Hi, it should be one of the following forms:

ri 'Object#object_id'
ri Object.ri 'object_id'

It should definitely have a more graceful error message. I'll add that
to my list of stuff to fix.

-the coloring alters the output line"hee"
=3D> ???[0;32mnil???[0;0m
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-The persistent history works! Yes!

One out of three ain't bad!

I am not used to the internals of the windows console. Do you think it
is possible to have wirble working on both Unix and Windows
plateforms?

I'm not familiar with the Windows console either. I'll follow up on
some of the other URLs in this thread and see what I can find out.

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[Paul Duncan]

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Hi Paul,
When I tried it on Windows XP, I get this wierd error:
I don't have rubilicious=20

I've fixed this bug and packaged up an 0.1.2.

Here's the URL(s):

http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.2.tar.gz
http://pablotron.org/files/wirble-0.1.2.tar.gz.asc
http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.2.gem
http://pablotron.org/files/gems/wirble-0.1.2.gem.asc

All I did was remove the accidental rubilicious depencency and
regenerate the gem.

By the way, some other people have had problems with the color codes
under Windows, so I make no promises about how well that will work for
you .

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[Gordon Thiesfeld]

I got colors to work on my XP box by installing win32_console.

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32_console/

after that I just added:
require 'win32/console/ansi'

 

[Hal Fulton]

I looked into highlighting the input in Irb, too. It's a lot more work,
but it might be doable. At a minimum, I'd need to write, borrow, or
steal a full-blown Ruby lexer. I'd probably need a more terminal-
friendly replacement for readlines (probably curses).

You can use the lexer built into irb. I forget how it's
done, but I did it two years ago.


Hal

 

[Hans Fugal]

Hi All,

I just released version 0.1.1 of Wirble. Wirble is a small collection
of enhancements Irb, packaged in an easy-to-use format. Wirble includes
tab-completion, persistent history, built-in ri support, and syntax
highlighting for Irb results.

Nice! I think you should do auto indent too.

IRB.conf[:AUTO_INDENT]=true