How can I access a variable defined in a Ruby file I required in IRB?

Question

The file welcome.rb contains:

welcome_message = \"hi there\"

But in IRB, I can\'t access the variable I just created:

Answer 1

I think the best way is to define a class like this

class Welcome
  MESSAGE = "hi there"
end

then in irb you can call your code like this :

puts Welcome::MESSAGE