Ruby pbcopy and pbpaste

pbcopy and pbcopy are two handy Mac OS X command line utilities to copy and paste content to the Clipboard.

The following Ruby methods provides access to the same utility using Ruby.

def pbcopy(input)
  str = input.to_s
  IO.popen('pbcopy', 'w') { |f| f << str }
  str
end

def pbpaste
  `pbpaste`
end

To make them available in IRB, add them to your ~/.irbrc file.