# How to type { \[ in irb?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 7, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035 "2007-09-07T08:06:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035/1 "2007-09-07T08:06:59Z")

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Hello,

I have danish keyboard, and I cannot figure out how to type { [ in the  
ruby irb ?

Any help out there 🙂

Thanks

/Jamal

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 9:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035/2 "2007-09-07T09:24:08Z")

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Hi,

Am Freitag, 07. Sep 2007, 15:07:00 +0900 schrieb Jamal S.:

> I have danish keyboard, and I cannot figure out how to type { [ in the  
> ruby irb ?

Suppose you’re on a really poor O$.

[http://www.google.de/search?q=irb+windows+special+characters](http://www.google.de/search?q=irb+windows+special+characters)

Follow the first hit.

[http://peterkrantz.com/2005/irb-for-nonen-keyboards/](http://peterkrantz.com/2005/irb-for-nonen-keyboards/)

Hope that helps.

Bertram

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 10:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035/3 "2007-09-07T10:28:10Z")

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Thanks,

For other people facing the same problem, type in the commandline:

irb --noreadline

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035/4 "2007-09-07T18:33:07Z")

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Bertram S. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, 07. Sep 2007, 15:07:00 +0900 schrieb Jamal S.:
> 
> > I have danish keyboard, and I cannot figure out how to type { [ in the  
> > ruby irb ?
> 
> Suppose you’re on a really poor O$.
> 
> [http://www.google.de/search?q=irb+windows+special+characters](http://www.google.de/search?q=irb+windows+special+characters)
> 
> Follow the first hit.
> 
> [http://peterkrantz.com/2005/irb-for-nonen-keyboards/](http://peterkrantz.com/2005/irb-for-nonen-keyboards/)
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Bertram

I facing the same problem with RubyonRails console ??? :((((

ruby script/console

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035/5 "2007-09-07T18:38:17Z")

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On Sat, Sep 08, 2007, Jamal S. wrote:

> I facing the same problem with RubyonRails console ??? :((((
> 
> ruby script/console

That’s because the Rails console _is_ irb. Whatever you did to fix IRB  
should work for console too.

Ben

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035/6 "2007-09-07T19:13:32Z")

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Ben B. wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007, Jamal S. wrote:
> 
> > I facing the same problem with RubyonRails console ??? :((((
> > 
> > ruby script/console
> 
> That’s because the Rails console _is_ irb. Whatever you did to fix IRB  
> should work for console too.
> 
> Ben

I just type

irb --noreadline

and it works, but with rails

ruby script/console

it doesn’t work, and it does not accept any arguments as follow

ruby script/console --noreadline

☹

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035/7 "2007-09-07T20:40:32Z")

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> I just type
> 
> irb --noreadline

> it doesn’t work, and it does not accept any arguments as follow
> 
> ruby script/console --noreadline

here’s a slightly hacky way to do it;

ruby script/console --irb=“irb --noreadline”

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**Author:** ![jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jamal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jamal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-type-in-irb/114035/8 "2007-09-07T20:43:59Z")

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Matthew R. wrote:

> > I just type
> > 
> > irb --noreadline
> 
> > it doesn’t work, and it does not accept any arguments as follow
> > 
> > ruby script/console --noreadline
> 
> here’s a slightly hacky way to do it;
> 
> ruby script/console --irb=“irb --noreadline”

Thank you very much 🙂