I don't know enough about IRB's internal, but can you redefine the inspect
method on those objects to print only a summary? That's what I did to my
objects that have huge object graph attached.

Another possibility is to always suffix your command with ";nil", such as
"big.call; nil", to hide the return value.

Peter

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Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 7:15 AM
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Subject: [Jruby-extras-devel] irb and to_s

Hi,

    Is there a way to persuade irb to use to_s to print objects in the 
console instead of inspect ?

    We're working with some objects that have thousands of other objects 
inside them, so evaluating them on jirb takes minutes, because of the 
time it takes to print.

thanks,
Ricardo

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