Fir: A Friendly, Interactive Ruby REPL (opens in new tab)

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96 pointsnasseri8y ago12 comments

12 comments

gkya8y ago

The best interactive environment I've ever used (and still use) is an Emacs buffer with an associated inferior process. The default keybindings for Ruby mode interaction with inferior-ruby are a bit lacking, I have made a couple customisations for myself that can be helpful: https://www.gkayaalp.com/gk.html#orgf0bce87 .

pvg8y ago

Very neat. Do your maintain this by hand or generate it with something? (Unrelated but computer program is 'program' even in British spelling).

stevekemp8y ago

If you enjoy this style of literate documentation, then you might enjoy my personal Emacs configuration too (it is smaller). The following should be placed in ~/.emacs/init.el:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.el

That reads and parses the following Markdown file, which contains documentation for humans and indented code-blocks which are executed by Emacs:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md

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gkya8y ago

Thanks! I use org-mode and org-babel to generate this, and hook it up into org-publish which I use to publish all of my website. Org-babel is a literate programming extension to org mode that allows you to embed code in any language in your org mode document and execute them or export to many formats.

weaksauce8y ago

Wow! that's some serious customization to your emacs config and well documented too. impressive.

gkya8y ago

Thanks!

hartator8y ago

Really cool, you don't really need to list all the emacs commands in the Readme. Even if is where most of the work went.

I would love to help. I can try to implement some of the pry features into Fir or work on a Rails integration ala pry-rails.

adrianlmm8y ago

I tried to use it in Windows and looked like this:

https://imgur.com/a/ete0V

baldfat8y ago

Try this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/opensuse-leap-42/9nj...

Its for OpenSUSE instead of Ubuntu because I like OpenSUSE more especially comparing apt-get syntax to zypper.

zypper refresh actually refreshes the repos and not apt-get update that doesn't update anything

zypper update actually updates the packages and not apt-get upgrade

zypper dist-upgrade moves from one release to the next as opposed to apt full-upgrade because apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't remove programs with a conflict. UGH!!!!!

zypper search actually searches for packages as opposed to apt-cache search

/rant over

WHY did chocolatey go with the debian apt-get syntax :(

hartator8y ago

You probably better using Bash for Win 10. It's native now.

mhd8y ago

Or downgrade a few versions and run ANSI.SYS.

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gkya8y ago

pvg8y ago

Very neat. Do your maintain this by hand or generate it with something? (Unrelated but computer program is 'program' even in British spelling).

stevekemp8y ago

If you enjoy this style of literate documentation, then you might enjoy my personal Emacs configuration too (it is smaller). The following should be placed in ~/.emacs/init.el:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.el

That reads and parses the following Markdown file, which contains documentation for humans and indented code-blocks which are executed by Emacs:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md

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gkya8y ago

weaksauce8y ago

Wow! that's some serious customization to your emacs config and well documented too. impressive.

gkya8y ago

Thanks!

hartator8y ago

Really cool, you don't really need to list all the emacs commands in the Readme. Even if is where most of the work went.

I would love to help. I can try to implement some of the pry features into Fir or work on a Rails integration ala pry-rails.

adrianlmm8y ago

I tried to use it in Windows and looked like this:

https://imgur.com/a/ete0V

baldfat8y ago

Try this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/opensuse-leap-42/9nj...

Its for OpenSUSE instead of Ubuntu because I like OpenSUSE more especially comparing apt-get syntax to zypper.

zypper refresh actually refreshes the repos and not apt-get update that doesn't update anything

zypper update actually updates the packages and not apt-get upgrade

zypper dist-upgrade moves from one release to the next as opposed to apt full-upgrade because apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't remove programs with a conflict. UGH!!!!!

zypper search actually searches for packages as opposed to apt-cache search

/rant over

WHY did chocolatey go with the debian apt-get syntax :(

hartator8y ago

You probably better using Bash for Win 10. It's native now.

mhd8y ago

Or downgrade a few versions and run ANSI.SYS.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse