From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T16:58:34+09:00
Subject: Re: #p is to #inspect as #pp is to ?

On Nov 30, 2007 4:17 PM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 30, 1:17 am, "Daniel Sheppard" <dani...@pronto.com.au> wrote:
> > > I have this as a lone method, but it seems to me there should already
> > > be a way to do this with the 'pp' lib. (If not perhaps we could add
> > > it?)
> >
> > I believe that pp calls Object#pretty_print - the source will tell you
> > more.
>
> I looked at that and didn't see how that would help. As it says...
>
> "To define your customized pretty printing function for your classes,
> redefine a method pretty_print(pp) in the class. It takes an argument
> pp which is an instance of the class PP. The method should use
> PP#text, PP#breakable, PP#nest, PP#group and PP#pp to print the
> object."
>
> Don't see off-hand how that can help easily get a string of what it
> would output.

Sorry, i had the wrong method in mind, what you want is most likely
Object#pretty_inspect
Example:
puts (1..30).to_a.pretty_inspect

Does that help?

^ manveru