I'm trying to load some default assemblies and init some variables with ironruby, and I don't know where to start.
What I'm trying to create is something similar to rails script/console: you run that script and get a console where all rails Classes are available, but using a couple of my own library.
The question is how can I start an IronRuby console with some assemblies loaded (required) by default?
If you want the console to preload assemblies, you'd have to use iirb and not ir (practically the same with a slightly different UI). This is, by the way, the tool that rails script/console uses.
Preloading assemblies (or ruby modules) is done via the -r switch. For example, if you'd like to preload "MyAssembly.dll", run the next command:
iirb -r "MyAssembly.dll"
If you want to do several different operations like loading several assemblies and initializing some variables, I'd recommend writing an rb file that does all that. For example:
require "MyAssembly.dll"
include MyNamespace
my_variable = "Hello!"
...
Assuming this code file is named "init.rb", then call the iirb tool as follows:
iirb -r "init.rb"
You can then create a batch file that runs this command line to ease its use.
P.S. you can use the --simple-prompt switch as well to get the same "UI" of the ir.exe console:
iirb -r "init.rb" --simple-prompt