From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-06-28T22:26:54+09:00
Subject: Re: pretty_print woes

> >   require 'pp'
> >   ....
> >   result=foo(bar)
> >   $my_message="The function call foo("+
> >       bar.pretty_print_inspect+
> >       ") returned: "+result.pretty_print_inspect
> > 
> > This works well most of the time, for example if the values 
> formatted
> > with pretty_print_inspect are arrays or numbers. I get, however, a
> > runtime error when calling for String:
> > 
> >   "abc".pretty_print_inspect
> > RuntimeError: pretty_print is not overridden for String
> > 
> > Is there a different way to use the module pp, so that its 
> output goes 
> > to a string?
> irb(main):009:0> puts "foo\"bar".pretty_inspect
> "foo\"bar"
> => nil

Thanks a lot! Nearly perfect!! (Actually, I use pretty_inspect.chomp,
because pretty_inspect adds a \n to the formatted string).

Ronald