From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T18:40:58+09:00
Subject: Re: puts from #!, but with data structure chrome

Alle giovedì 25 ottobre 2007, Greg Willits ha scritto:
> When playing with small scripts and using puts to output some results, I
> find it rather disappointing that outputting an array or hash does not
> have the data structure chrome of [ ] and { } -- I know IRB does this,
> but I'm testing stuff too cumbersome for IRB.
>
> Is there a way to run a #! script and cause output using puts (or
> alternative) to actually show an array like ['a', 'b'] instead of just
> ab ?
>
> -- gw

Use p instead of puts. puts(obj) calls obj.to_s, while p(obj) calls p.inspect, 
which is what IRB does.

I hope this helps

Stefano