Thanks Bill, Will try asap. Seems like a genuine IRB issue though.
Lars On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Bill Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > I had the same issue and found that adding the Readline module shown in this > blog post to my .irbc file did the trick. > > http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/04/23/tweaking-irb > > I had to make this change to it though: > > #LOG = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-history" > LOG = IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Lars George <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have this issue as of late that my shell history is not saved >> anymore. I have old commands there, and the history file has exactly >> 100 lines as specified in the .irbrc >> >> $ cat ~/.irbrc >> require 'irb/ext/save-history' >> ARGV.concat [ "--readline", "--prompt-mode", "simple" ] >> IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] = 100 >> IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-save-history" >> >> (I added the --readline line in an attempt to fix the issue, but to no >> avail) >> >> Did anyone else have this issue? Just wondering if that is a Ruby, >> JRuby, or hirb issue. >> >> Lars >> >
