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To get rid of the "cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected" message in newer versions of Cygwin, simply create a system environment variable called CYGWIN and give it a value of nodosfilewarning

While object.inspect is ok and puts object.to_yaml is better, the best way to dump a data structure (or object) in Ruby has to be "y object" Also: "The console provides a magic variable ( _ ) for your use, which will automatically give you the last return value the console saw"

Console2, see Burnstreet's answer. One great feature of Console2 is the ability to run the IRB in its own tab: Edit > Settings > Tabs > and set the shell to `ruby c:/cygwin/bin/irb`