NameError: uninitialized constant IRB::Irb

Ruby JRuby
1

Hi,

I am totally new to both Ruby and JRuby. In fact I met this problem when
I
was trying to debug HBase, which has a shell - hirb.rb - written in
Ruby.

The file hirb.rb contains a class HIRB which subclasses IRB as follows

“”"
module IRB

class HIRB < Irb
“”"

However, the execution of hirb.rb using JRuby (jruby-complete-1.6.5.jar)
returns the error

NameError: uninitialized constant IRB::Irb
const_missing at org/jruby/RubyModule.java:2590

I am using Windows 7 as the dev environment, and no Ruby environment was
installed. The execution is through running org.jruby.Main with the path
of
hirb.rb as the input.

Thanks
Aaron

2

It sounds like it’s not loading the “irb” library, or that library
isn’t in jruby-complete properly.

The following works ok for me on JRuby master…perhaps you can try
adding “require ‘irb’” to the code?

$ jruby -e 'require "irb"; p IRB; p IRB::Irb'
IRB
IRB::Irb
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