How do I start the REPL in a user defined namespace?

Question

Writing (in-ns \'dbx) to a file and loading it isn\'t changing the default namespace of the repl (using cygwin/console). The namespace is still user=><

Answer 1

In addition to Carlos' answer suggesting :repl-options {:init-ns foo.bar}, I have also had success with adding :dev {:main user} to my profile.clj.

To give more context:

;; /foo/profile.clj
...
:main foo.core
:dev {:main user
      :source-paths ["dev"]}`
...

;; /foo/dev/user.clj
(ns user
  (:require
   [clojure.pprint :refer (pprint)]
   [clojure.repl :refer :all]
   [clojure.string :as str]
   [clojure.test :refer [run-tests run-all-tests]]
   [clojure.tools.namespace.repl :refer [refresh refresh-all]]))