IRB in your browser, via WebSockets. Proof of concept.

Installation

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.

What's the point?

• 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)

Want to hack on it?

Feel free! Especially my javascript-fu sucks a lot. It is not very shell like at the moment.