On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Brian Candler <b.candler / pobox.com> wrote: > Don Norcott wrote: >> require 'hpricot' >> url = "http://www....." >> doc = Hpricot.XML(open(url)) >> >> In interactive ruby can I suppress the output produced by >> Hpricot.XML(open(url)) >> >> is this the stdout stream or is it something else? > You can set the ECHO configuration off: IRB.conf[:ECHO] = false HTH, Ammar