From: "Brett Williams" <vor_lord / hotmail.com> > The previous tip from Bill Kelly, to run IRB.start at the end of the script > unfortunately didn't work either. I can't seem to get IRB to work properly > without it trying to open some kind of file. Perhaps I should mention I am > working with a fairly recent CVS snapshot (irb/main didn't even load). D'oh! Interesting. I'm using ruby 1.6.2 (2000-12-18) [i386-cygwin] for what it's worth. . . Have a look at your 'irb' shell script (or irb.bat batch file) to find out how it goes about launching irb? That's where I got the require "irb/main"; IRB.start . . . . Sounds like it must be done somehow differently in later versions? HTH, Regards, Bill