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

Check out the guide for debugging rails: http://guides.rubyonrails.com/debugging_rails_applications.html

hints: script/console is great to try stuff in the context of your app script/server --debugger to start the server with a debugger turned on, you can then use 'debug' in your code to break into an interactive shell