On Nov 18, 10:44 pm, Stephen Bannasch <stephen.banna... / deanbrook.org>
wrote:
> Is there an equivalent in irb to the command history in bash?
>
> After I've been doing a bunch of work in the shell I often use the
> history command in bash to get a list of all the commands I've
> executed which I copy and past into an editor to document the work I
> did.
>
> Is there an equivalent command for irb which would list by lines each
> command I have entered?  Rightnow I use readline to scan backwards
> and copy and paste individually.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

I think this irb_history business from Ben Bleything is what you want:
http://blog.bleything.net/pages/irb_history

HTH,
Chris