Developing gems and testing

Question

I am new to developing Ruby gems, but I thought I\'d give it a try.

Recently checking out the latest episode on Railscasts (http://railscasts.com/episodes/245-new-gem-wi

Answer 1

You can include these lines in your Rakefile:

task :console do
  exec "irb -r mygem -I ./lib"
end

This will create a rake task to initialize a new irb session and preload your library. Now, all you have to do is:

$ rake console