Filesystem path completion in IRB?

Gullible Jones · 10-28-2013, 07:15 PM

When the completion module is loaded in IRB, method and object names are autocompleted. However, there seems to be no functionality for completing the names of filesystem paths or executables. Is there a currently maintained gem that provides such functionality? Failing that, where would I best look to for code examples if I wanted to implement it myself?

kooru · 10-30-2013, 03:14 AM

Hi, i don't know if I understand well what you want

Anyway, have you already tried to look here?

Gullible Jones · 10-30-2013, 01:59 PM

Sorry, I mean tab completion of path names. In IRB (with completion enabled) you e.g. type 'Dir.ent<tab>' and get 'Dir.entries'. But if you type 'Dir.entries "/usr/sh<tab>', the path name will not be completed. I'm wondering if there's a way to get tab completion for path names as well as method and object names.

kooru · 11-01-2013, 02:55 AM

ah ok, now i should have understood

You can try with bond.

Code:

gem install bond

The doc is here: