From: Zhao Lu <zhao.lu.us@...>
Date: 2008-08-22T02:19:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Lower verbosity in IRB?

You can achieve the same effect at runtime without messing with .irbrc if
this is not something you want to do permanently:

irb(main):001:0> conf.echo = false
irb(main):002:0> log = File.open("filetoread"){|f| f.read}
irb(main):003:0>

Zhao

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Stefano Crocco
<stefano.crocco@alice.it> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008, Kyle Schmitt wrote:
>> OK, this is probably a very basic question, but how do ou go about
>> lowering the verbosity of irb?
>>
>> For instance, if you wanted to read in a decent sized log file to scan
>> it for anomalies, you may do something like this:
>>
>> logfile=File.open("backup_08192008.log"){|f| f.read()}
>>
>> Normally, its fine that irb will barf out the contents of the file to
>> screen.  Normally it's even useful....
>> In this case however, it's really really bad.  The log file I'm
>> looking at is about 84 megs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>         Kyle
>
> You need to create a .irbrc file in your home directory with the line
>
> IRB.conf[:ECHO]=false
>
> This file is read by irb at startup. If you're on windows, then I don't know
> where this file should be put. I also suspect that there should be a way to do
> it from within irb, but I don't know how.
>
> I hope this helps
>
> Stefano
>
>



-- 
Zhao