Share variables between shell and ruby

[n-at-han-k]

I left a comment here on a previous discussion #14 (comment).

For total integration between shell and ruby, variables from the top level scope must be shared.

I'm not sure how difficult this is, but probably some "shell-level" integration will be required, for example a zsh-plugin.

Potentially, I've thought about some background process running an irb session that each command from the shell is passed into.
Essentially storing context/state in a background irb object. That way you can switch between "shell-mode" and "ruby-mode" whilst maintaining variable context.

[n-at-han-k]

some interesting reading here
https://willhbr.net/2025/11/01/recklessly-smashing-mruby-into-zsh/

[albertalef]

Wow, its really really cool.

https://xon.sh/

This looks to be rhe thing that we need, but with ruby