From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-09-04T01:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Data::Dumper for Ruby?

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Josef Wolf<jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:04:30AM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Josef Wolf<jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the fast answers!
>
>>> One of the first things I am missing is something like perl's Data::Dumper
>>> module.  This module is able to take a (nested) data structure and dump it
>>> in perl syntax.
>>
>> Do you actually need the syntax preserved, or are you just trying to
>> serialize data?
>
> The purpose is to check whether the data structures I have built (or am about
> to build) are how they should be.  So the important thing here is that it is
> easy to grasp visually.

try

require "pp"

pp my_obj