From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-02-25T05:02:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Requesting addition to IRB (configurable standard output)

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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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