Looks like %HOME%/.irbrc [if there is an environment variable "HOME"] .irbrc irb.rc _irbrc $irbrc It uses "load" to load it, so "load" tries each of the load path directories for each of [.irbrc, irb.rc, _irbrc, $irbrc]. Hope that helps, Jeff On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:22:41AM +0900, Jeff Wood wrote: > Where does IRB go looking for .irbrc files on a windows system? > j. > > -- > "http://ruby-lang.org -- do you ruby?" > > Jeff Wood