rails - Redirecting console output to a file

Question

On a bash console, if I do this:

cd mydir
ls -l > mydir.txt

The > operator captures the standard input and redirects it to a file; so I

Answer 1

Use hirb. It automatically pages any output in irb that is longer than a screenful. Put this in a console session to see this work:

>> require 'rubygems'
>> require 'hirb'
>> Hirb.enable

For more on how this works, read this post.