Ruby IRB with Syntax Highlighting (and more!) in Ruby 2.7

Very excited to find out that Ruby 2.7 will introduce improvements to irb, Ruby's native REPL console. Some improvements are:

• syntax highlighting!!!
• multiline mode
• auto-indentation
• and more!

More details in this blog post I read it from:
https://blog.saeloun.com/2019/09/23/new-irb-features.html

I'm a big fan of this even though I use pry as my default Ruby REPL, mostly because it lets me use the main features I like from pry in irb.

Comments

[Ben Halpern]

Multiline mode seems really neat.

[Andy Zhao (he/him)]

Yeah, I definitely have copy and pasted methods from the editor before to get around the current version's issue.

[Olimpio]

Syntax highlight and auto-indetation🔥🔥🔥 can't wait...

[Jacob Herrington (he/him)]

Console cowboys need love too 🤠❤