Highlights

• The help command now displays a help message directly, instead of opening a ri console.
• You can now get detailed usage information for specific commands by using help <cmd>. Commands that currently support detailed help messages include:
  • show_source
  • show_doc
  • edit
  • ls
  • We welcome contributions to expand this list!
• The show_source command can now display methods defined during the IRB session.
• In irb:rdbg sessions, simply hitting <enter> will now repeat the last command, mirroring the behavior in rdbg sessions.
• IRB now supports loading .irbrc from multiple locations. This means that for most users, ~/.irbrc will also be loaded when a project/.irbrc is defined.

What's Changed

✨ Enhancements

• Introduce exit! command by @ignacio-chiazzo in #851
• Powerup show_source by enabling RubyVM.keep_script_lines by @tompng in #862
• Repurpose the help command to display the help message by @st0012 in #872
• Support repeating debugger input by passing empty input to it by @st0012 in #856
• Revamp help command by @st0012 in #877
• Add help messages to show_source and show_doc commands by @st0012 in #887
• Restructure workspace management by @st0012 in #888
• Allow loading multiple irb files by @hahmed in #859

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix SourceFinder's constant evaluation issue by @st0012 in #869
• Improve constant lookup in SourceFinder by @tompng in #871
• Fix irb:rdbg for ruby head by @st0012 in #876

🛠 Other Changes

• Polish the exit! command and its tests by @st0012 in #867
• Fix exit! command warning and method behavior by @tompng in #868
• Refactor eval_path and SourceFinder::Source by @st0012 in #870
• Update error message assertions for Ruby 3.4 by @st0012 in #874
• Standardize command related names by @st0012 in #873
• Load RubyGems explicitly for tests of test/irb by @hsbt in #879
• Invalid encoding symbols now raise SyntaxError in 3.4 by @nobu in #880
• Remove IRB::NotImplementedError by @tompng in #878
• Unroll extension method generation by @st0012 in #882
• Turn on frozen literal in files by @st0012 in #881
• Remove remaining frozen_string_literal: false in lib/ by @tompng in #883
• Remove workaround for empty lines in dynamic_prompt by @tompng in #884
• Remove useless loaded file check by @tompng in #885
• Refactor IRB::Context#prompting by @st0012 in #889
• Escape closing square brackets in regexp by @peterzhu2118 in #892
• Prevent irb_history's creation during HistoryTest by @st0012 in #893
• Clear temporary directories by @nobu in #894
• Bump version to v1.12.0 by @st0012 in #895

New Contributors

• @hahmed made their first contribution in #859

Full Changelog: v1.11.2...v1.12.0