[#4479] Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Sascha Ebach <se@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2005/02/24
[#4482] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/02/25

Quoting se@digitale-wertschoepfung.de, on Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:22:34AM +0900:

[#4483] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2005/02/25

On 24 Feb 2005, at 19:51, Sam Roberts wrote:

[#4488] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Sam Roberts <sroberts@...> 2005/02/26

Quoting drbrain@segment7.net, on Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:43:31AM +0900:

[#4489] Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output) — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2005/02/26

On 25 Feb 2005, at 16:03, Sam Roberts wrote:

Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output)

From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-02-24 20:02:52 UTC
List: ruby-core #4480
On 24 Feb 2005, at 08:22, Sascha Ebach wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was talking to Florian Gross on IRC about his Breakpoint library 
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-breakpoint/ which I (and many 
> others) use in Rails applications for testing and debbugging purposes.
>
> I often use it to see what is going on with my objects. Sometimes they 
> are pretty big (filled with lots of data). The standard output of IRB 
> looks like #inspect output.
>
> irb(main):006:0> [1,2,3].inspect
> => "[1, 2, 3]"
>
> This can be really noisy if the objects that are inspected have a lot 
> of data in them (like a whole page of HTML).
>
> It would be nice if this were configurable. There already is an option 
> --inspect for IRB. So what I am requesting is that one can define 
> their own "inspector" like this.

PrettyPrint is probably your best, least intrusive solution.

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