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

One approach I lean on a lot is this:

logger.debug "OBJECT: #{an_object.to_yaml}"

Easy to read, although it can get a little unwieldy for large objects.