# Starting IRB and interfacing with it

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-irb-and-interfacing-with-it/102441>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-irb-and-interfacing-with-it/102441 "2006-08-15T14:17:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Bielinski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@Chris\_Bielinski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Bielinski)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-irb-and-interfacing-with-it/102441/1 "2006-08-15T14:17:29Z")

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Hey,

I’m working on an IRC bot. I’d like to be able to open an IRB in a  
thread or something and have everyone in the channel type in code and  
the bot spit back the results. I’m pretty new to Ruby, so I was  
wondering where I should start. Any ideas?

Chris

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Bielinski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@Chris\_Bielinski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Bielinski)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/starting-irb-and-interfacing-with-it/102441/2 "2006-08-15T14:17:49Z")

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Does it need to work via IRC? You need to be aware that there are  
serious security issues with allowing other users to run executable  
code on your machine. Could you just use something like Try Ruby  
([http://tryruby.hobix.com/](http://tryruby.hobix.com/))?