ruby/irb

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Forks: 158
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Indexed issues: 61
Avg merge: 1d 12h
Merged PRs (30d): 12

Dominant language: Ruby
License: BSD-2-Clause
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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61 open issues indexed

Proposal: public hook for external documentation providers in show_doc and the completion doc dialog Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/irb#1243 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Consider letting help fall back to RI documentation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#1242 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
irb install was broken on JRuby 10+ for 6 weeks due to broken rdoc/rbs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/irb#1226 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Embeddable IRB, for use on websites Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/irb#1223 · Opened Jun 7, 2026
Can't write history on irb exit on Windows Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

ruby/irb#1219 · 4 comments · Opened May 31, 2026
Allow rdoc to be an optional dependency? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#1211 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Allow inspecting implicit parameters via `implicit_parameter_get` etc. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

ruby/irb#1210 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
[Feature/Community] irb-fzf-history: fuzzy search for IRB history using fzf Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

ruby/irb#1204 · Opened Apr 18, 2026
SIGABRT with illegal memory access from pressing ctrl-c Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/irb#1203 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Support editing command input in editor Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ruby/irb#1176 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 24, 2026
Deadlock when ctrl+c on syntax invalid code in multi-irb Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ruby/irb#1164 · Opened Jan 22, 2026
IRB initialization changes global `$stdout` encoding, causing `Encoding::UndefinedConversionError` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#1162 · Opened Jan 20, 2026
IRB v2.0 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

ruby/irb#1156 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 29, 2025
Fix RubyLex deprecation warning Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#1154 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 27, 2025
Load edited file after `edit` command Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#1099 · 1 reaction · Opened May 28, 2025
Support `do` and `pre` keywords in `binding.irb` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#1083 · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 6, 2025
Unable to execute `x in *` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#1080 · Opened Jan 28, 2025
IRB leaking out Reline changes globally Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#1048 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 13, 2024
strip end of line CR from show_source Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#1037 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 21, 2024
UndefinedConversionError when LANG and default encoding are different Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#1023 · Opened Oct 19, 2024
Provide easy way to open associated RDoc? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/irb#996 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 29, 2024
[feature request] Automatically set process title to currently running command Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#991 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2024
Add animated GIF/SVG recordings of `irb` in action to the README Open

ruby/irb#986 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2024
Add a command to peek at otherwise inaccessible context Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/irb#978 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2024
IRB fails to colorize code other than utf-8 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#976 · Opened Jun 23, 2024
`show_source` can't find some sources defined in the session Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#974 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 17, 2024
Can't change workspace after entering `debug` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#952 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2024
Please clarify the license Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#930 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2024
Display better error message if no prompt mode is given Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

ruby/irb#910 · Opened Mar 24, 2024
Config file placed at the project level at `.config/irb/irbrc` is not parsed. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

ruby/irb#904 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2024
After entering `debug`, _ (underscore) stops working Open

bug

ruby/irb#891 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 27, 2024
Implement `play` command Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#846 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 26, 2024
Sessions being deprecated? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/irb#822 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 22, 2023
[DOC] Undocumented entries in IRB.conf Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#815 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 13, 2023
Completion of require_relative path is wrong when `Dir.pwd != __dir__` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#766 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2023
IRB hangs when autocompleting require_relative path at root directory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ruby/irb#765 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2023
Multithread IRB feature Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/irb#690 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2023
Add start up message Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/irb#687 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2023
Support remote IRB Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/irb#672 · 7 reactions · Opened Aug 7, 2023
Public API for calculating indentation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#665 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2023
Support C-method source in `show_source` command Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/irb#664 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2023
Use `OptionParser` to parse options Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/irb#655 · Opened Jul 23, 2023
Deprecate multi-irb feature Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#653 · 10 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2023
Configs that haven't been covered by tests Open

rubyconf-hackdays

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#630 · Opened Jul 4, 2023
Commands that haven't been covered by tests Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

ruby/irb#629 · Opened Jul 4, 2023
Support helper method extension API Open

enhancement

ruby/irb#588 · 1 assignee · Opened May 21, 2023
Avoid using arbitrary `puts` to print output Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#580 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2023
Merge extensions under `EXTEND_COMMANDS` into `Context` class Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#563 · Opened Apr 23, 2023
Completion does not work after [ Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/irb#550 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 23, 2023
Auto formatting should be disabled by default Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/irb#457 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2022

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