How to run a .rb file from IRB?

Question

I am starting out with Ruby on Rails. I am currently going through a tutorial where it says that I have to run a .rb file from IRB and that that will create a .xml file in m

Answer 1

You can "run" a file in irb by just requiring or loading it.

$ irb
>> load './filename.rb'

To change your current working directory within irb, you can use FileUtils:

>> require 'fileutils'
>> FileUtils.pwd # prints working directory
>> FileUtils.cd '/path/to/somewhere' # changes the directory