Persist Rails or IRB Console Command History After Exit
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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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