From: Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@...>
Date: 2008-09-25T01:48:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get Ruby objects printed out in their 'natural' form

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Kenneth McDonald
<kenneth.m.mcdonald@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> For debugging purposes, I'd like to be able to do something like
>
> print [1,2,3]
>
> and have "[1,2,3]" printed to the screen, not 123. How do I go about this.
> I've experimented with to_s and puts, and not found anything obvious.

p [1,2,3]
puts [1,2,3].inspect

The last is useful if you want to get the string representation of the
Ruby object, e.g. if you're using a logger, so you can do something
like:

log.debug(obj.inspect)

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