From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T23:06:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Visualizing in-memory objects?

2008/8/12 Michael Guterl <mguterl@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Casimir <pikEISPAMMMseli@welho.com> wrote:
>> Object persistence, transparent, is something that I much desire.
>>
>> However, I have nowhere near enough understanding on how objects behave in
>> memory.
>>
>> To learn more I thought it would be cool to write something to visualize
>>  objects and references between the objects. I realize I can use a debugger
>> to 'dig in', but I was thinking of something more graphical.
>>
>> Do you think this pathway is possible? Any pointers? Or should I stick to
>> learning debugging?
>>
>
> Check out ograph.
>
> http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ograph/

Sounds promising.  I didn't know that, thanks for the link, Michael!

Casimir, another simpler alternative might be to use pp, i.e.

require 'pp'
...
pp some_object

Kind regards

robert


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