Hirb - Irb On The Good Stuff

Irb is a great place for interacting with Ruby. Unfortunately, even with the colorful help of wirble, it’s not so great for visualizing the output of those interactions. Hirb aims to change that.

Hirb provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed with irb in mind. Given the output of a console application, it applies a view if there is one to apply, based on the output’s class.

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Hirb

Hirb currently provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed to improve irb’s default output. Hirb improves console output by providing a smart pager and auto-formatting output. The smart pager detects when an output exceeds a screenful and thus only pages output as needed. Auto-formatting adds a view to an output’s class. This is helpful in separating views from content (MVC anyone?). The framework encourages reusing views by letting you package them in classes and associate them with any number of output classes. Hirb comes with tree views (see Hirb::Helpers::Tree) and table views (see Hirb::Helpers::Table). By default Hirb displays Rails’ model classes as tables. Hirb also sports a nice selection menu, Hirb::Menu.

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