Hirb
A couple of weeks ago I watched the RailsCast on Searchlogic and saw Ryan use some gem called Hirb. It looked interesting for sure, so I wrote it down to check it out to completely forget about it.
Until yesterday.
What is Hirb?
A mini view framework for console/irb that’s easy to use, even while under its influence. Console goodies include a no-wrap table, auto-pager, tree and menu.
OK. What does that mean?
It improves irb’s default output a lot. And by a lot, I mean, A. LOT.
In case you like it, you might want to set it up to autoload in script/console for all your Rails projects. In order to do so, add the following to your ~/.irbrc file:
if ENV['RAILS_ENV']
require 'rubygems'
require 'hirb'
Hirb.enable
end
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