From: Devi Web Development <devi.webmaster@...>
Date: 2007-09-08T09:01:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing variable names in ruby

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try v.intern.to_s

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Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney
Devi Web Development
Devi.WebMaster@gMail.com
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On 9/7/07, Todd A. Jacobs <tjacobs-sndr-019fdb@codegnome.org> wrote:
>
> I found myself trying to do a bit of ruby debugging, and was going crazy
> trying to figure out how to display a variable's name instead of its
> value in a string. There may be a more elegant way, but I found that
> symbols did what I wanted:
>
>     if $DEBUG
>         [:my_email, :my_resume, :my_logfile].each do |v|
>             $stderr.puts "DEBUG: #{v} = #{eval v.to_s}"
>         end
>     end
>
> Is there a better way?
>
> --
> "Oh, look: rocks!"
>         -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks"

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