Reading your original post again I see it might be a different issue after all.
IIRC, my problem wasn't that commands weren't being saved, but that they weren't getting reloaded after I restarted my shell. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Lars George <lars.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Bill, > > Will try asap. Seems like a genuine IRB issue though. > > Lars > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Bill Graham <billgra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I had the same issue and found that adding the Readline module shown in > this > > blog post to my .irbc file did the trick. > > > > http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/04/23/tweaking-irb > > > > I had to make this change to it though: > > > > #LOG = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-history" > > LOG = IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] > > > > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Lars George <lars.geo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have this issue as of late that my shell history is not saved > >> anymore. I have old commands there, and the history file has exactly > >> 100 lines as specified in the .irbrc > >> > >> $ cat ~/.irbrc > >> require 'irb/ext/save-history' > >> ARGV.concat [ "--readline", "--prompt-mode", "simple" ] > >> IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] = 100 > >> IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-save-history" > >> > >> (I added the --readline line in an attempt to fix the issue, but to no > >> avail) > >> > >> Did anyone else have this issue? Just wondering if that is a Ruby, > >> JRuby, or hirb issue. > >> > >> Lars > >> > > >
