Run Sikuli in (J)Ruby - (J)IRB

I use irb for composing and debugging scripts. Following is what you might need to do inorder to run Sikuli in  IRB:

1. Install JRuby or via rvm
2. Copy sikuli-script.jar to  jruby lib
• cp /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app/Contents/Resources/Java/sikuli-script.jar $JRUBY_HOME/lib
• For RVM:
• rvm list (to list currently installed rubies)
• rvm use jruby-1.x.x (to use jruby as the ruby implementation)
• rvm info (to print information about the ruby currently being used)
• cp /Applications/Sikuli-IDE.app/Contents/Resources/Java/sikuli-script.jar $MY_RUBY_HOME/lib ($MY_RUBY_HOME points to the current ruby home, in this case jruby)
3. run irb (the irb prompt should list jruby as the ruby implementation, something like jruby-1.x.x :001 >  )
4. jruby-1.x.x :001 > require 'java'                                                                                      
•  => true 
5. jruby-1.x.x :002 > java_import 'org.sikuli.script.Screen'                                                              
•  => Java::OrgSikuliScript::Screen 
6. jruby-1.x.x :003 > screen = Screen.new                                                                             
•  => #<Java::OrgSikuliScript::Screen:0x1dc2dad7>
7. jruby-1.6.0 :004 > image_path='/Users/mubbashir/Desktop'                                                             
•  => "/Users/mubbashir/Desktop"
8. screen.hover("#{image_path}/apple.png") 
• [info] Sikuli vision engine loaded.
•  => 1 

 You will see mouse pointer to be moved to apple icon.

With Auto Completion IRB is just a blessing, specially when you want to try some new library or need to run some snippets:

Similarly in script it would be something like:

to run the script ruby script_file_name.rb Just be sure that you are using JRuby ;)

Ruby IRB Auto Completion and Highlight - Linux

Install wirble

laptop:~$ sudo gem install wirble
Successfully installed wirble-0.1.3
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for wirble-0.1.3...
Installing RDoc documentation for wirble-0.1.3...

vim ~/.irbrc

Put the following in this file:

require "rubygems"
require "wirble"
Wirble.init
Wirble.colorize

IRB.conf[:AUTO_INDENT] = true
IRB.conf[:USE_READLINE] = true
IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES] = [] unless IRB.conf.key?(:LOAD_MODULES)
unless IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES].include?('irb/completion')
IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES] << 'irb/completion'
end

type

:wq

Thats it on irb prompt use tab for auto completion

Example:

Install random_data

laptop:~$ sudo gem install random_data
Successfully installed random_data-1.5.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for random_data-1.5.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for random_data-1.5.1...

-laptop:~$ irb
>> require 'rubygems'
=> false
>> require 'random_data'
=> true
>> Random.al
Random.allocate Random.alphanumeric
>> Random.alphanumeric 11
=> "w1KbPVLzE2l"