How to suppress Rails console/irb outputs

Question

I was testing some DB entries in our production server in Rails Console where almost all the commands were producing a huge number of lines of output and causing the ssh channel to hang.

Is there a way to suppress the console/irb screenfuls?

Answer 1

You can append ; nil to your statements.

Example:

users = User.all; nil 

irb prints the return value of the last executed statement; thus in this case it'll print only nil since nil is the last executed valid statement.