Feature #8515
closeddon't allow irb to dump output for forever and ever
Description
You've done this before, I know you have. You were screwing around in IRB and you ran something stupid and IRB just started dumping output. LOTS of output. Output that would scroll by for an hour if you don't go kill it. Output going by so fast that it's useless. So much output that your lappy laptop starts burning your knees. (That much output!)
Then, to compound problems, Crtl-C doesn't work here. Maybe you're in some weird context, or on a low-mem server and everything is just... What, Bam, UNRESPONSIVE.
Ugh, the troubles! Now you gotta gotta bust out the 'kill -9' (if you can even get another terminal open) and lose any progress you may have been working on.... OH MAN!
Wouldn't it be nice if IRB limited its output, much the way psql/less do? That is, at some point if enough output has scrolled by, Stop, and let me have the option to continue or not.
That'd be cool.
<3
Updated by Anonymous almost 11 years ago
On 06/11/2013 09:41 AM, crankharder (Josh Sharpe) wrote:
Feature #8515: don't allow irb to dump output for forever and ever
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8515
Agreed, it would be nice to have LESS(1) functionality in irb.
Have you tried the pry gem? It does behave like less (including regex
searches).
If you want to use irb, there is this snippet for your .irbrc (though it
seems incompatible with wirble), which abbreviates long output:
credit to Stian Haklev¶
class IRB::Context
attr_accessor :max_output_size
alias initialize_before_max_output_size initialize
def initialize(*args)
initialize_before_max_output_size(*args)
@max_output_size = IRB.conf[:MAX_OUTPUT_SIZE] || 500
end
end
class IRB::Irb
def output_value
text =
if @context.inspect?
sprintf @context.return_format, @context.last_value.inspect
else
sprintf @context.return_format, @context.last_value
end
max = @context.max_output_size
if text.size < max
puts text
else
puts text[0..max-1] + "..." + text[-2..-1]
end
end
end
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) almost 11 years ago
You can run irb with --noecho option, or set `IRB.conf[:ECHO] = false' in .irbrc.
Updated by hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) over 9 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Feedback
Updated by avit (Andrew Vit) over 9 years ago
pry's pager is very cool, but it seems that it needs to build the whole string output before it gets echoed back to the screen using less
. Maybe something better could be done for that within irb by "streaming" the output buffer?