p_inspect

Adds #p_inspect and .p_inspect to every object. This method prints the object and returns self. This makes it so you can print anything without having to refactor your code.

Some examples

Debugging things is tricky. Some people (like myself) like to print objects to see what they look like at runtime. The problem is you often need to change code to print things out.

Let's say we have some code like this where we want to see what the objects look like along the way.

string = "my-new-string"
  .split("-")
  .map { |word| word.upcase }
  .join("")

Without p_inspect you'd need to break the code up like this

string = "my-new-string".split("-")

puts string
string = string.map { |word| word.upcase }
puts string
# ...etc.

With p_inspect print objects with minimal modifcation to your code

string = "my-new-string"
  .split("-")
  .p_inspect
  .map { |word| word.upcase }
  .p_inspect
  .join("")
  .p_inspect

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  p_inspect:
    github: paulcsmith/p_inspect

Usage

require "p_inspect"

And then you can call p_inspect on object.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/paulcsmith/p_inspect/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• paulcsmith Paul Smith - creator, maintainer