From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2010-12-05T12:46:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Verbosity of p

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Johny Why <johnywhy@gmail.com> wrote:
> why does:
> puts "Inspect:#{p(myDog)}"
>
> give LESS verbose results than:
>
> p(myDog)

The method #p is meant to be used as a replacement for:

  puts obj.inspect

It outputs itself, so you don't want to interpolate its output like
you're doing above. Try this:

  print "Inspect: "
  puts myDog.inspect

... vs ...

  print "p: "
  p myDog

Ben