From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2005-04-13T05:49:37+09:00
Subject: Re: gems info showing up in PhoneBook object ??


"Florian Gro�" <florgro@gmail.com> wrote

> What happens when you do 'p PhoneBook.new'?

PhoneBook> irb
Executing break point at phonebook.rb:45 in `do_irb'

irb:001:0> p PhoneBook.new
#<PhoneBook:0x3ab2730 @stop=false, @stdout=#<IO:0x279e7e8>,
@stdin=#<IO:0x279e800>, @
>"12345677", "pfgasdsafg"=>nil, "steve 1234"=>nil, "mary"=>"123456"}>
=> nil

irb:002:0> self.class
=> PhoneBook

irb:003:0> p self
......... tons of stuff here, I've captured its head below

irb:004:0> p self.inspect[0...400]
"#<PhoneBook:0x2b3ac28 @command_abbreviations={\"delete\"=>\"delete\",
\"exi\"=>\"exit\", \"fin\"=>\
"find\", \"del\"=>\"delete\", \"lis\"=>\"list\", \"exit\"=>\"exit\",
\"add\"=>\"add\", \"help\"=>\"h
elp\", \"list\"=>\"list\", \"a\"=>\"add\", \"de\"=>\"delete\",
\"l\"=>\"list\", \"irb\"=>\"irb\", \"
ad\"=>\"add\", \"fi\"=>\"find\", \"d\"=>\"delete\", \"dele\"=>\"delete\",
\"delet\"=>\"delete\", \"h
el\"=>\"help\", \"e\"=>\"exit\", \"she\"=>\"shell\", \"f\"=>\"find\",
\"shel\"=>\"shell\", \"f"
=> nil


> >>self
> >
> > #=>
>
> Something important is missing here.

So much stuff prints out that my command-window buffer loses the front end.
It does not print out indented; I used 'pp' for that.

> > Also, what method does irb call to display an object? I tried defining
to_s
> > and inspect on PHoneBook but it had no effect.
>
> IRB uses .inspect in most cases,

I redefined PhoneBook#inspect (in the irb breakpoint), and
>> self
still prints out the same stuff.

Like I said, I may be doing something patently dumb.