class Byebug::IrbCommand - byebug-9.0.6 Documentation

# class Byebug::IrbCommand

Enter IRB from byebug's prompt

### Public Class Methods

description() click to toggle source

    # File lib/byebug/commands/irb.rb, line 15
    def self.description
      <<-EOD
        irb

        #{short_description}
      EOD
    end

regexp() click to toggle source

    # File lib/byebug/commands/irb.rb, line 11
    def self.regexp
      /^\s* irb \s*$/x
    end

short_description() click to toggle source

    # File lib/byebug/commands/irb.rb, line 23
    def self.short_description
      'Starts an IRB session'
    end

### Public Instance Methods

execute() click to toggle source

    # File lib/byebug/commands/irb.rb, line 27
    def execute
      unless processor.interface.instance_of?(LocalInterface)
        return errmsg(pr('base.errors.only_local'))
      end

      # @todo IRB tries to parse ARGV so we must clear it (see #197). Add a
      #   test case for it so we can remove this comment.
      with_clean_argv { IRB.start }
    end

### Private Instance Methods

with_clean_argv() { || ... } click to toggle source

    # File lib/byebug/commands/irb.rb, line 39
    def with_clean_argv
      saved_argv = ARGV.dup
      ARGV.clear
      begin
        yield
      ensure
        ARGV.concat(saved_argv)
      end
    end