pp equiv of #inspect

[Ara.T.Howard]

i often use


raise SomeError, "object was <#{ object.inspect }>"

and similar

what would be the eqiv methods using pretty_print? i would like to do
something like

raise SomeError, "object was <#{ object.pretty_print_inspect }>"

but that obviously does not work.

what i am after is a method on object, or that takes an object, which returns
as a string the output that pp(object) would have produced. i know i can do
PP.pp(obj, port) but am looking for something shorter...

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[Gavin Sinclair]

what i am after is a method on object, or that takes an object, which returns
as a string the output that pp(object) would have produced. i know i can do
PP.pp(obj, port) but am looking for something shorter...

FWIW:

require 'extensions/object' # from Rubyforge

x = some_object.pp_s

Not a great name, perhaps; I just picked it up somewhere and liked the
idea.

Gavin