# \[ANN\] live-console 0.2.2.1

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 8, 2009, 7:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-live-console-0-2-2-1/171720 "2009-07-08T07:40:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 7:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-live-console-0-2-2-1/171720/1 "2009-07-08T07:40:44Z")

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Pleased to announce the release of live-console 0.2.2.1

what is live console?

[from the README, which I didn’t write]

LiveConsole is a library for providing IRB over a TCP connection or a  
Unix  
Domain Socket. If you add it to your application, you can run arbitrary  
code  
against your application.  
For example, you can:

- Inspect the state of a running application
- Change the state of the application
- Patch code on the fly, without a restart.
- Let anyone on the net 0wn you if you bind to a public interface. 🙂  
It’s useful as a diagnostic tool, a debugging tool, and a way to impress  
your  
friends or get those Lisp guys off your back. You know the ones I mean.

Changes=====

- now windows compatible
- now 1.9 compatible
- now works even if you’re not connecting to another process already  
running irb.

Many thanks to the original author, as this is just a fork with some  
fixes of the original [[GitHub - pete/live-console: LiveConsole, a Ruby gem for providing IRB over things other than stdio.](http://github.com/pete/live-console/tree/master)]  
[and yes, I have submitted my patches upstream].

Installation:  
gem sources -a [http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com)  
sudo gem install rogerdpack-live\_console

Feedback welcome.

=r