Bug #20584: Multiple irbrc files loaded

• Status: Third Party's Issue
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 3.3.3 (2024-06-12 revision f1c7b6f435) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN

[aosho235 (Aoyama Shotaro)]

Both ~/.irbrc and ./.irbrc are loaded on startup of irb.
Only the first found one should be loaded. 3.2.2 is so.

The path to the configuration file is the first found among:
https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/IRB.html

$ ruby --version    
ruby 3.3.3 (2024-06-12 revision f1c7b6f435) [x86_64-linux]

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Third Party's Issue

It seems the intentional changes.

see https://github.com/ruby/irb/pull/859

If you have any concerns, can you file it to irb repository?