drbirb

= drbirb

• http://caldersphere.rubyforge.org/drbirb

== DESCRIPTION:

Small script/plugin to run a DRb/IRB server inside of your Ruby application, so you can poke around while it's running.

Original code from Charles Lowe ruby-talk:250220, I just wrapped up into a nice package, because I think this is a cool development and debugging tool.

== REQUIREMENTS:

• DRb, IRB (i.e., nothing above the standard library)

== SYNOPSIS:

Start the server on localhost:7777:

require 'drbirb/loader'

join the thread unless you have some other code that prevents the

interpreter from exiting

Drbirb.server.thread.join

Start the server on a custom host/port:

require 'drbirb/server' irb_host, irb_port = ... server = DRb.start_service "druby://#{irb_host}:#{irb_port}", IRB::RemoteService.new

join the thread unless you have some other code that prevents the

interpreter from exiting

server.thread.join

Start the client:

drbirbc drbirbc druby://localhost:7777

When intalled as a Rails plugin, the server is started automatically for you in the plugin's init.rb.

== INSTALL:

gem install drbirb

To use in a Rails app (legacy/plugin):

script/plugin install http://github.com/nicksieger/drbirb.git

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008-2012 Nick Sieger

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