From: "Weirich, James" <James.Weirich@...>
Date: 2003-09-12T07:37:35+09:00
Subject: Re: print out a variable's name and value?

Ferenc Engard [mailto:ferenc@engard.hu] writes:
> I want a comfortable debug function to which I can pass a 
> variable, and it writes out the variable's name and value.

Try this:

  def dbg(&block)
    varname = block.call.to_s
    puts "DBG: #{varname} = #{eval(varname,block)}"
  end

  x = 10
  dbg{:x}   # IMPORTANT! Notice curly braces.

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