Irb-autosuggestions: Fish-like autosuggestions for irb
Irb::Autosuggestions provides a feature for IRB that displays ghost text suggestions based on command history. Users can easily accept suggestions by pressing the right arrow key, enhancing the coding experience. The feature is enabled by default but can be disabled through configuration settings.
- ▪Irb::Autosuggestions shows gray ghost text for recent matching history entries as users type in IRB.
- ▪To accept a suggestion, users can press the right arrow key, which replaces the current buffer with the suggested text.
- ▪The feature can be disabled by modifying the IRB configuration file or using an environment variable.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 33 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
Hacker News (Newest) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 5,306 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/unurgunite/irb-autosuggestions |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 03:02:17 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T03:37:35.249Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T03:37:35.249Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | di1wMicZ8-co · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Irb::Autosuggestions No need to explain. Fish-like autosuggestions for IRB — ghost text from history as you type. Contents Irb::Autosuggestions Contents Installation Usage Configuration How it works Development License Installation Add to your Gemfile: gem 'irb-autosuggestions' ~/.irbrc: require 'irb-autosuggestions' Usage Start typing in IRB. Gray ghost text appears after the cursor, showing the most recent matching history entry: irb(main):001* [1,2,3].map do |el| irb(main):002* el.succ <- "cc" in gray irb(main):003> end <- "d" in gray Press right arrow (->) to accept the full multiline suggestion. Configuration Autosuggestions are enabled by default.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.