Persist Rails or IRB Console Command History After Exit

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"

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Last edit

2024-02-09

Michael Leimstädtner

License

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Posted to makandra dev (2014-05-12 10:40)