Utility Belt A grab-bag of tools, tricks, and tech for IRB and the command line
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A grab-bag of tools, tricks, and tech for IRB and the command line Utility Belt is an easy to use grab-bag of techniques, tricks, trifles, tools, and toys for IRB, including convenience methods, language patches, and useful extensions. Utility Belt also includes a couple command-line widgets.Utility Belt gives you a ton of new options and techniques in IRB. (You may find yourself putting its language patches in actual projects as well.) The way to use Utility Belt is to edit, or create, your .irbrc file. This is analogous to a Unix .bashrc, .tcshrc, .profile, or similar file.NOTE: Utility Belt is licensed and distributed under the terms of the MIT License. Here are some key features of "Utility Belt": · Interactively edit IRB code in your preferred text editor · Read from and write to OS X clipboard · Post your code to Pastie with one command (OS X only) · Kick-ass Unix-style history buffer · Write command history to file or vi · Grep classes and methods for strings · Verbosity controls for regular IRB and Rails console · Finder shortcuts for Rails console · Upload shortcut for Amazon S3 · Command-line Amazon S3 upload script · Command-line Google shortcut (OS X only) · Auto-indentation · _ special variable (like Unix shell var !!) · Extremely basic themes for Wirble syntax coloring · Pascal/JavaScript-style "with" statement · String#to_proc · Grammatically-correct is_an? method - no more "is_a? Array" statements · One-character exit command

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