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== Utility Belt ==

http://utilitybelt.rubyforge.org/

`gem install utility_belt`

`vim ~/.irbrc`
require 'rubygems'
require 'utility_belt'

"Utility Belt is a grab-bag of tricks, tools, techniques, trifles, and toys for IRB, including convenience methods, language patches, and useful extensions. It also includes a couple command-line widgets. Its primary inspirations were an awesome gem called Wirble and a blog post by Amy Hoy called "Secrets Of The Rails Console Ninjas"."

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== Features ==

    * Interactively edit IRB code in your preferred text editor
    * Read from and write to OS X clipboard
    * Post your code to Pastie with one command (OS X only)
    * Kick-ass Unix-style history buffer
    * Write command history to file or vi
    * Grep classes and methods for strings
    * Verbosity controls for regular IRB and Rails console
    * Finder shortcuts for Rails console
    * Upload shortcut for Amazon S3
    * Command-line Amazon S3 upload script
    * Command-line Google shortcut (OS X only)
    * Auto-indentation
    * _ special variable (like Unix shell var !!)
    * Extremely basic themes for Wirble syntax coloring
    * Pascal/JavaScript-style "with" statement
    * String#to_proc
    * Grammatically-correct is_an? method - no more "is_a? Array" statements
    * One-character exit command

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== What's so awesome about it? ==

>> vi

( opens up a vim console which will execute in its own context when you hit :wq.  Maintains history, so if there was a bug in your code, >> vi again will get you to vim with the same code loaded, to fix it )

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== Seriously, that's it? ==

No, there are tons more features.  I just really only care about that one :)

http://utilitybelt.rubyforge.org/