Persist Rails or IRB Console Command History After Exit

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Create, or edit your ~/.irbrc file to include:

require 'irb/ext/eval_history' # was 'irb/ext/save-history' for versions prior to Ruby 3.3
IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] = 2000
IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-history"
Last edit
Michael Leimstädtner
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Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted to makandra dev (2014-05-12 10:40)