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

Instead of requiring 'pp' and using pp, you can simply do

p object

Tested example

require 'pp'

class A
  def initialize
    @a = 'somevar'
    @b = [1,2,3]
    @c = {'var' => 'val'}
  end
end

a = A.new
pp a # Gives -> #"val"}>
p a # Gives -> #"val"}>. No need to require 'pp'