Formatting the Object#inspect output

[Jeffrey Moss]

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When I'm working with large structures in IRB, I get a lot of output =
that I can't really read all that well, all the #<Array:0xb75713d8 =
@something=3D>[#<This:0xb75ca550>, #<That:0xb7521d02>]>

With larger objects I can't really tell what I'm looking for or where to =
find it, it's just 100+ lines of garbage really, I'd like it to be =
indented......

Any suggestions how I could format this stuff better?

-Jeff
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[Robert Klemme]

When I'm working with large structures in IRB, I get a lot of output
that I can't really read all that well, all the #<Array:0xb75713d8
@something=>[#<This:0xb75ca550>, #<That:0xb7521d02>]>

With larger objects I can't really tell what I'm looking for or where
to find it, it's just 100+ lines of garbage really, I'd like it to be
indented......

Any suggestions how I could format this stuff better?

-Jeff

Try

require 'pp'

pp <cour complex data structure here>

This might look a bit better. Alternatively you can implement #inspect in
your classes to return any string representation you like. This will also
be used by IRB.

Kind regards

robert