Inspired by pry-remote and irb_remote.
IrbRemote is a Gem that allows the Irb session of a remote process to be manipulated using the local process's Reline. It uses druby for inter-process communication.

This gem is still in development and may not work as expected. Please use it with caution.

gem install irb-remote

-> cat example.rb
require 'irb-remote'
x = 1
y = 'hello'
check_completion = 'success'

binding.irb_remote

puts "#{x} #{y} #{check_completion}"

-> ruby example.rb
[irb-remote] Waiting for client on druby://127.0.0.1:9876

in another terminal

-> irb-remote
Connected to remote session on druby://127.0.0.1:9876

From: sample/sample.rb @ line 8 :

    3: require_relative '../lib/irb-remote'
    4: x = 1
    5: y = 'hello'
    6: check_completion = 'success'
    7:
 => 8: binding.irb_remote
    9:
    10: puts "#{x} #{y} #{check_completion}"

irb-remote>

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/QWYNG/irb-remote. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the IrbRemote project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.