From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-06-28T22:18:55+09:00
Subject: Re: pretty inspecting objects?

Jarmo Pertman wrote:
> Idea would be to write contents of some objects into some file in pretty
> inspection format.
> 
> How is it possible in Ruby to get pretty inspection of an object without
> printing it to stdout?
> 
> One possibility would be to play with stdout redirection while using
> 'pp', but that's not what i'm looking for. Is there any easy way to do
> it or should i start monkey-patching 'pp' to add that feature?

Why monkey-patch? Look at source of pp.rb, and you'll see it takes an 
optional argument, out=$>

require 'pp'
a = {:foo=>1,:bar=>2}
File.open("/tmp/pp.out","w") { |f| PP.pp(a, f) }
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