# ANN: Hirb - Irb on the good stuff

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-hirb-irb-on-the-good-stuff/163407>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 20, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-hirb-irb-on-the-good-stuff/163407 "2009-03-20T00:25:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![ghorner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@ghorner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghorner)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-hirb-irb-on-the-good-stuff/163407/1 "2009-03-20T00:25:58Z")

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Hi,  
I’m announcing Hirb, a mini view framework for console applications,  
designed with irb in mind. It allows you to create table views, tree  
views:  
Numeric  
|-- Float  
|-- Integer  
| |-- Bignum  
| `-- Fixnum |-- Date::Infinity `– Rational

and more.

I’ve written two tutorials on it:

> **[Tagaholic - Hirb - Irb On The Good Stuff](http://tagaholic.me/2009/03/13/hirb-irb-on-the-good-stuff.html)**
>
> 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.

and  
[Tagaholic - Ruby Class and Rails Plugin Trees With Hirb](http://tagaholic.me/2009/03/18/ruby-class-trees-rails-plugin-trees-with-hirb.html).  
It’s also got some decent documentation: [RDoc Documentation](http://tagaholic.me/hirb/doc/).

You can install it with: gem install cldwalker-hirb --source  
[http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com)

Enjoy!  
Gabriel

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**Author:** ![ghorner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@ghorner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghorner)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-hirb-irb-on-the-good-stuff/163407/2 "2009-03-20T01:49:37Z")

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:52 AM, ghorner [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Hi,  
> I’m announcing Hirb, a mini view framework for console applications,  
> designed with irb in mind.

Good stuff!!

martin

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**Author:** ![ghorner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@ghorner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ghorner)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-hirb-irb-on-the-good-stuff/163407/3 "2009-03-28T23:23:36Z")

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> You can install it with: gem install cldwalker-hirb --source  
> [http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com)

Adopted!