run IRB from Notepad++

Question

From one of the stackoverflow post RubyPrompt:

I have seen that we can run IRB from Notepad++ also. The last answer from the above post I am talking about.

Can anyone out there help me about the configurations to run IRB from Notepad++?

Answer 1

Go to the run menu and choose Run...

Choose the button labeled ... and locate the irb.bat file which is located at path_to_ruby/bin/irb.bat. Choose open and it will display the path to irb in the text field.

After the irb path in the text field, enter -r "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)". The final text field should look something like:

C:\Ruby200\bin\irb.bat -r "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"

Choose Save... and you can setup a Shortcut for this Run. I chose F6 personally.

Now, write your Ruby file and hit F6 or whatever you set as the shortcut. IRb will then launch with your current Ruby file loaded into the environment.

Tutorials Point and Ruby Central have a list of some additional arguments you can pass to IRb that could also be used in the above example.

EDIT:

If you are more interested in running the IRb console from within Notepad++, You should check out the NppExec plugin. There is a good blog post on how to get it working for Python at Raza Sayed's blog. Just switch out Python for IRb.

A decent list of other Notepad++ plugins can be found on their wiki