pp to a string, not stdout

[Larry Kluger]

Hi,

pp foo # pretty prints foo to stdout

But I want to print to a string, which I'll then be handling in rails.

I tried the following and output still went to the Mongrel log (stdout)

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Larry

~~~~~~~~~
s = StringIO.new
pp(fields, s)
s.rewind
s.read # Should be the output of pretty print, but = '' instead

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

Hi,

pp foo # pretty prints foo to stdout

But I want to print to a string, which I'll then be handling in rails.

irb(main):009:0> [1,2,3].pretty_print_inspect
=> "[1, 2, 3]"
irb(main):010:0> [1,2,3].pretty_inspect
=> "[1, 2, 3]\n"

 

[Marcel Molina Jr.]

pp foo # pretty prints foo to stdout

But I want to print to a string, which I'll then be handling in rails.

irb(main):009:0> [1,2,3].pretty_print_inspect
=> "[1, 2, 3]"
irb(main):010:0> [1,2,3].pretty_inspect
=> "[1, 2, 3]\n"

There is also the quite awkward:

irb(main):003:0> PP.pp((1..30).to_a, s = '')
=> "[1,\n 2,\n 3,\n 4,\n 5,\n 6,\n 7,\n 8,\n 9,\n 10,\n 11,\n 12,\n 13,\n 14,\n 15,\n 16,\n 17,\n 18,\n 19,\n 20,\n 21,\n 22,\n 23,\n 24,\n 25,\n 26,\n 27,\n 28,\n 29,\n 30]\n"
irb(main):004:0> s
=> "[1,\n 2,\n 3,\n 4,\n 5,\n 6,\n 7,\n 8,\n 9,\n 10,\n 11,\n 12,\n 13,\n 14,\n 15,\n 16,\n 17,\n 18,\n 19,\n 20,\n 21,\n 22,\n 23,\n 24,\n 25,\n 26,\n 27,\n 28,\n 29,\n 30]\n"

marcel

 

[Larry Kluger]

Dear Joel and Marcel,

Thank you!

I appreciate your help.

Regards from a slightly steamy New York City,

Larry