IRB in your browser, via WebSockets. Proof of concept.
gem install haml em-websockets monkey-lib capture_stdout escape_utils
git clone git://github.com/rkh/brirb
cd brirb
make
ruby brirb.rb
Now, open brirb.html.
- Embed this in your Rails/Rack app, so you have a console in the process serving your page
- Embed this in your ShowOff presentations to really show off
- WebSockets are fun, play with the code!
- Combine IRB with HTML output/interaction...
- Output is fully async! Try this (in brirb):
Thread.new { loop { sleep 2; ws.send('foo') } }(stop it with_.kill)
Feel free! Especially my javascript-fu sucks a lot. It is not very shell like at the moment.