Send #to_s and #inspect to a file in IRB

September 12th, 2008

Inspired by Francis Fish's string2file method, I came up with a quick way of dumping any object in IRB to a file. Add this to your ~/.irbrc:

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module SaveToFile
  def to_file(filename="to_s.txt")
    File.open(filename, "w") do |f|
      f << self.to_s
    end
  end
  
  def inspect_to_file(filename="inspect.txt")
    File.open(filename, "w") do |f|
      f << self.inspect
    end
  end
end

Object.class_eval do
  include SaveToFile
end
Posted by ashleymoran Filed in Tech