From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-06-23T06:35:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Formatting the Object#inspect output

Jeffrey Moss <jeff@opendbms.com> wrote:
> When I'm working with large structures in IRB, I get a lot of output
> that I can't really read all that well, all the #<Array:0xb75713d8
> @something=>[#<This:0xb75ca550>, #<That:0xb7521d02>]>
>
> With larger objects I can't really tell what I'm looking for or where
> to find it, it's just 100+ lines of garbage really, I'd like it to be
> indented......
>
> Any suggestions how I could format this stuff better?
>
> -Jeff

Try

require 'pp'

pp <cour complex data structure here>

This might look a bit better.  Alternatively you can implement #inspect in 
your classes to return any string representation you like.  This will also 
be used by IRB.

Kind regards

    robert