Tweak your Ruby consoles 2011 edition

IRB is an important part of the working-environment of many Ruby programmers. It's a great place to learn and quickly try out things, but also for production-level interaction with Ruby applications.

But time does not stand still. New IRB extensions and alternatives arise and you can gain much productivity by using some. My talk will touch on

• Facts and issues about IRB
• Useful IRB libraries
• IRB alternatives, especially Ripl
• Advanced Ruby consoles