[macruby-changes] [4702] DietRB/trunk/README.rdoc

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Revision: 4702
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/ruby/changeset/4702
Author:   eloy.de.enige at gmail.com
Date:     2010-10-08 04:01:53 -0700 (Fri, 08 Oct 2010)
Log Message:
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Add note about the gem breaking the existing IRB bin.

From: Eloy Duran <eloy.de.enige at gmail.com>

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    DietRB/trunk/README.rdoc

Modified: DietRB/trunk/README.rdoc
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--- DietRB/trunk/README.rdoc	2010-10-08 11:01:46 UTC (rev 4701)
+++ DietRB/trunk/README.rdoc	2010-10-08 11:01:53 UTC (rev 4702)
@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@
 and investigate what else people really really need. After that it's time to
 polish.
 
+= Important notice
+
+Since on Ruby 1.9 *all* latest gems are pushed onto the load path by default,
+installing the DietRB gem will break the existing IRB binary.
+
+  % irb19
+  /usr/local/bin/irb19:12:in `<main>': undefined method `start' for IRB:Module (NoMethodError)
+
+So you probably just want to alias dietrb to irb.
+
 == Extensions
 
 * irb/ext/colorize.rb, adds support for colorizing the prompt and result. The
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