From: Ferenc Engard <ferenc@...>
Date: 2003-09-13T05:18:41+09:00
Subject: Re: print out a variable's name and value?

"Weirich, James" wrote:
> 
> 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.

WOW! Nice. :-))))

Circum