Issues

• Proposal: public hook for external documentation providers in show_doc and the completion doc dialog

  ruby/irb#1243 · Filter by author znz opened on Sep 2, 2026

• Consider letting help fall back to RI documentation

  ruby/irb#1242 · Filter by author ohboyd opened on Aug 31, 2026

• irb install was broken on JRuby 10+ for 6 weeks due to broken rdoc/rbs

  ruby/irb#1226 · Filter by author chadlwilson opened on Jun 29, 2026

• Embeddable IRB, for use on websites

  ruby/irb#1223 · Filter by author rubyFeedback opened on Jun 7, 2026

• Can't write history on irb exit on Windows

  bug
  ruby/irb#1219 · Filter by author imbrish opened on May 31, 2026
  4

• Allow rdoc to be an optional dependency?

  ruby/irb#1211 · Filter by author sriedel opened on Apr 28, 2026
  1

• Allow inspecting implicit parameters via implicit_parameter_get etc.

  ruby/irb#1210 · Filter by author Earlopain opened on Apr 27, 2026

• [Feature/Community] irb-fzf-history: fuzzy search for IRB history using fzf

  ruby/irb#1204 · Filter by author jvlara opened on Apr 18, 2026

• SIGABRT with illegal memory access from pressing ctrl-c

  ruby/irb#1203 · Filter by author yogo1212 opened on Apr 16, 2026
  2

• Support editing command input in editor

  enhancement
  ruby/irb#1176 · Filter by author st0012 opened on Feb 24, 2026
  1

• Deadlock when ctrl+c on syntax invalid code in multi-irb

  ruby/irb#1164 · Filter by author Earlopain opened on Jan 22, 2026

• IRB initialization changes global $stdout encoding, causing Encoding::UndefinedConversionError

  ruby/irb#1162 · Filter by author hotoolong opened on Jan 20, 2026

• IRB v2.0

  ruby/irb#1156 · Filter by author st0012 opened on Dec 29, 2025
  1

• Fix RubyLex deprecation warning

  ruby/irb#1154 · Filter by author bkuhlmann opened on Dec 27, 2025
  2

• Load edited file after edit command

  ruby/irb#1099 · Filter by author okuramasafumi opened on May 28, 2025

• Support do and pre keywords in binding.irb

  enhancement
  ruby/irb#1083 · Filter by author st0012 opened on Feb 6, 2025

• Unable to execute x in *

  ruby/irb#1080 · Filter by author tompng opened on Jan 28, 2025

• IRB leaking out Reline changes globally

  ruby/irb#1048 · Filter by author szymonj99 opened on Dec 13, 2024
  1

• strip end of line CR from show_source

  ruby/irb#1037 · Filter by author YO4 opened on Nov 21, 2024

• UndefinedConversionError when LANG and default encoding are different

  ruby/irb#1023 · Filter by author tompng opened on Oct 19, 2024

• Provide easy way to open associated RDoc?

  enhancement
  ruby/irb#996 · Filter by author mperham opened on Aug 29, 2024
  2

• [feature request] Automatically set process title to currently running command

  ruby/irb#991 · Filter by author dmke opened on Aug 21, 2024
  3

• Add animated GIF/SVG recordings of irb in action to the README

  ruby/irb#986 · Filter by author postmodern opened on Aug 13, 2024
  

• Add a command to peek at otherwise inaccessible context

  ruby/irb#978 · Filter by author joeldrapper opened on Jul 1, 2024
  2

• IRB fails to colorize code other than utf-8

  ruby/irb#976 · Filter by author tompng opened on Jun 23, 2024