How do I print out the contents of an object in Rails for easy debugging?

Question

I think I\'m trying to get the PHP equivalent of print_r() (print human-readable); at present the raw output is:

ActiveRecord::Relation:0x10355d         


        

Answer 1

pp does the job too, no gem requiring is required.

@a = Accrual.first ; pp @a

#,
 Feb: #,
 Mar: #,
 Apr: #,
 May: #,
 June: #,
 July: #,
 Aug: #,
 Sep: #,
 Oct: #,
 Nov: #,
 Dec: #,

You can also print two instances of an object:

 pp( Accrual.first , Accrual.second)
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