How do I dump an object's fields to the console?

Question

When I\'m running a simple Ruby script, what\'s the easiest way to dump an object\'s fields to the console?

I\'m looking for something similar to PHP\'s print

Answer 1

The to_yaml method seems to be useful sometimes:

$foo = {:name => "Clem", :age => 43}

puts $foo.to_yaml

returns

--- 
:age: 43
:name: Clem

(Does this depend on some YAML module being loaded? Or would that typically be available?)