Hi, I'm announcing Hirb, a mini view framework for console applications, designed with irb in mind. It allows you to create table views, tree views: Numeric |-- Float |-- Integer | |-- Bignum | `-- Fixnum |-- Date::Infinity `-- Rational and more. I've written two tutorials on it: http://tagaholic.me/2009/03/13/hirb-irb-on-the-good-stuff.html and http://tagaholic.me/2009/03/18/ruby-class-trees-rails-plugin-trees-with-hirb.html. It's also got some decent documentation: http://tagaholic.me/hirb/doc/. You can install it with: gem install cldwalker-hirb --source http://gems.github.com Enjoy! Gabriel