Rather simple means of adding pretty output to irb

  • Get the hirb gem
    sudo gem install cldwalker-hirb --source http://gems.github.com
  • Configure ~/.irbrc
    require 'rubygems'
    require 'hirb'
    Hirb.enable
    extend Hirb::Console
  • Look at the output
    >> Site.find(:first)
    +----+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
    | id | name      | domain    | site_s... | create... | update... |
    +----+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
    | 1  | Web Group | webgro... | 1         | 2007-0... | 2008-0... |
    +----+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
    1 row in set
    >>

This makes me happy. A prettier output for Ruby objects. For more information, see http://github.com/cldwalker/hirb/tree/master