ANNOUNCE: Hirb - A gem enhancing your script/console

Rails
1

Hi,
I’m announcing Hirb, a mini view framework which enables script/
console to provide custom views.
Out of the box your activerecord objects come back as ascii tables.
You can also configure your tree-based models to return as ascii
trees:
Numeric
|-- Float
|-- Integer
| |-- Bignum
| -- Fixnum |-- Date::Infinity – Rational

I’ve written two tutorials on it:

and

It’s also got some decent documentation: RDoc Documentation

To try it out: gem install cldwalker-hirb --source
http://gems.github.com

Enjoy!
Gabriel

2

Gabriel,

This looks pretty cool! Quick question: is there a way to set this up
to be used automatically from script/console and/or irb?

Thanks,

-Danimal

3

This looks pretty cool! Quick question: is there a way to set this up
to be used automatically from script/console and/or irb?

Should be able to just put the following into your ~/.irbrc

require ‘hirb’
Hirb::View.enable

4

Thanks Phillip. Danimal, if you’re using Hirb just for Rails, you can
add it in config/environment.rb and only have
it load when using script/console:
if $0 == ‘irb’
require ‘hirb’
Hirb::View.enable
end

Also, if you’re using Wirble make sure to put Hirb::View.enable after
loading Wirble.

Gabriel