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WIRB Interactive Ruby <img src="https://github.com/janlelis/wirb/workflows/Test/badge.svg" />

The WIRB gem syntax highlights Ruby objects. Works best as your default REPL inspector (see usage section below), but does not require IRB.

Supported Rubies: 3.1, 2.7, 2.6

Older Rubies, should work: 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, rubinius

Ancient Rubies (1.9, 1.8): Please use WIRB 1.0

Install the gem with:

$ gem install wirb

Or add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'wirb'

To start IRB with WIRB activated for one session, do:

$ irb -r wirb --inspect wirb

To activate WIRB permanently, you can add this to the ~/.irbrc file:

require 'wirb'
Wirb.start

Another way would be to use Irbtools, which activate WIRB automatically.

WIRB comes with a pretty printing utility (similar to awesome_print):

require 'wirb/wp'
wp some_object

These are the bundled color schemas. You can load one with Wirb.load_schema(:name)

:classic (default)
:colorless (only uses :bright, :underline and :inverse effect)
:ultra (by @venantius, matches the colorscheme from Ultra over in Clojure-land)

If you run into problems using WIRB with Rails, try the solution in this issue.