[LRUG] ruby shell?

[Andrew Stewart]

On 16 Jan 2008, at 00:31, Dafydd Rees wrote:
> ...so I was wondering if there's such a thing as a usable 'ruby shell'
> that I could use as a login shell instead of bash?

This has come up several times on the Ruby Talk mailing list.  I  
can't remember the conclusions in detail but you can search the  
discussions here:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml

I think the upshot was there are a few projects underway to build a  
Ruby Shell but none has cracked it yet.

Here's one of them:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rush/

Regards,
Andy Stewart


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