Get The Name Of A Local Variable

Question

When developing & debugging, I sometimes wish I could write a 1-liner that dumped the names, types & values of a bunch of variables. The problem is I don\'t know ho

Answer 1

foo = 1
bar = "42"
baz = Hash.new

%w(foo bar baz).each do |vn|
    v = eval(vn)
    puts "#{vn} = (#{v.class}) #{v}"
end

But this, of course, doesn't help you if you want a method with 1 argument.