From d4020d7a735b4b4286cfa669443c2126f6b292fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emily <emily@mongodb.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:32:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Don't make pry a gem dependency

---
 bin/mongo_console | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 mongo.gemspec     |  1 -
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/mongo_console b/bin/mongo_console
index e1e47f2169..ea2aa22840 100755
--- a/bin/mongo_console
+++ b/bin/mongo_console
@@ -1,11 +1,26 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
 $LOAD_PATH[0, 0] = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib')
-require 'pry'
-require 'mongo'
 
+require 'mongo'
 # include the mongo namespace
 include Mongo
 
-Pry.config.prompt_name = 'mongo'
-Pry.start
+begin
+  require 'pry'
+rescue LoadError
+end
+
+begin
+  require 'irb'
+rescue LoadError
+end
+
+if defined?(Pry)
+  Pry.config.prompt_name = 'mongo'
+  Pry.start
+elsif defined?(IRB)
+  IRB.start
+else
+  abort 'LoadError: mongo_console requires Pry or IRB'
+end
diff --git a/mongo.gemspec b/mongo.gemspec
index a41ffb5a46..24feca809b 100644
--- a/mongo.gemspec
+++ b/mongo.gemspec
@@ -31,5 +31,4 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.bindir            = 'bin'
 
   s.add_dependency 'bson', '~> 4.0'
-  s.add_dependency 'pry'
 end