# How to share irb session? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 22, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-share-irb-session/172490 "2009-07-22T10:21:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arun)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-share-irb-session/172490/1 "2009-07-22T10:21:05Z")
I am trying to teach my students ruby and rails online, so that they can contribute to the software we are writing for mentally challenged kids at skid.org.in I would love to be able to type something into an irb session on my computer, and have my students be able to view it on their own. Is there some cool way do do this? Thanks, Professor Arun Mehta ---
**Author:** ![arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arun)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 10:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-share-irb-session/172490/2 "2009-07-22T10:33:22Z")
Le 22 juillet à 10:15, arun a écrit : > I am trying to teach my students ruby and rails online, so that they > can contribute to the software we are writing for mentally challenged > kids at skid.org.in > > I would love to be able to type something into an irb session on my > computer, and have my students be able to view it on their own. Is > there some cool way do do this? Dunno about cool, but if you’re using \*nix or cygwin, the GNU screen utility ( [Screen - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation](http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/) ) should allow you to share terminals (for a start, cfr [Screen User’s Manual](http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Multiuser-Session) ). Fred ---
**Author:** ![arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arun)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 11:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-share-irb-session/172490/3 "2009-07-22T11:24:15Z")
arun [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > I am trying to teach my students ruby and rails online, so that they > can contribute to the software we are writing for mentally challenged > kids at skid.org.in > > I would love to be able to type something into an irb session on my > computer, and have my students be able to view it on their own. Is > there some cool way do do this? You could write an IRC bot that would receive ruby expressions, evaluate them and return the results. You and your student could then chat with any IRC client (there are even IRC clients usable thru the web, have a look at: [http://webchat.freenode.net/](http://webchat.freenode.net/) ). You should only take care of the security, if random people can send random instructions to your bot computer, it may be bad. But in a controlled environment, it’s simple enough to implement. ---
**Author:** ![arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arun)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-share-irb-session/172490/4 "2009-07-22T12:08:10Z")
arun wrote: > I would love to be able to type something into an irb session on my > computer, and have my students be able to view it on their own. Is > there some cool way do do this? VNC ---
**Author:** ![arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arun)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 12:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-share-irb-session/172490/5 "2009-07-22T12:16:52Z")
On Jul 22, 1:25 pm, “F. Senault” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Dunno about cool, but if you’re using \*nix or cygwin, the GNU screen > utility ([Screen - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation](http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/)) should allow you to > share terminals (for a start, cfrhttp://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Multiuser-Session thanks Fred let me see if I can get my students to run cygwin 🙂 warmly, arun ---
**Author:** ![arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@arun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arun)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-share-irb-session/172490/6 "2009-07-22T12:32:31Z")
arun wrote: > I am trying to teach my students ruby and rails online, so that they > can contribute to the software we are writing for mentally challenged > kids at skid.org.in > > I would love to be able to type something into an irb session on my > computer, and have my students be able to view it on their own. Is > there some cool way do do this? > > Thanks, > Professor Arun Mehta Instead, why not write a ruby program in a much easier to use text editor and email it to them? irb is idiotic.