rails console endowed with the power of xclip

xclip.rb

# ~/.irbrc

class Object
  def xclip
    IO.popen('xclip -i -selection clipboard', 'w') do |clipboard|
      clipboard.print(self.to_s)
    end
  end
end

class String
  def from_xclip
    IO.popen('xclip -o -selection clipboard', 'r') do |clipboard|
      self[0..-1] = clipboard.read
    end
  end
end