Is there equivalent for PHP's print_r in Ruby / Rails?

Question

In PHP you can do:

print_r($var) or vardump($var)

which prints \"human-readible\" information about variable.

Is there equ

Answer 1

Try using pp. You will need to require it in scripts (or in irb if your .irbc doesn't already do this):

require 'pp'

Then you can 'PrettyPrint' an object thus:

pp object