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Title: "Dumping Objects to the Browser in Rails"
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Author: Sami Samhuri
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Date: "15th May, 2007"
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Timestamp: 2007-05-15T13:38:00-07:00
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Tags: rails
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Here's an easy way to solve a problem that may have nagged you as it did me. Simply using <code>foo.inspect</code> to dump out some object to the browser dumps one long string which is barely useful except for short strings and the like. The ideal output is already available using the <a href="http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/prettyprint/rdoc/index.html"><code>PrettyPrint</code></a> module so we just need to use it.
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Unfortunately typing <code><pre><%= PP.pp(@something, '') %></pre></code> to quickly debug some possibly large object (or collection) can get old fast so we need a shortcut.
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Taking the definition of <a href="http://extensions.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Object.html#M000020"><code>Object#pp_s</code></a> from the <a href="http://extensions.rubyforge.org/rdoc/">extensions project</a> it's trivial to create a helper method to just dump out an object in a reasonable manner.
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**/app/helpers/application_helper.rb**
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```ruby
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def dump(thing)
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s = StringIO.new
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PP.pp(thing, s)
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s.string
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end
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```
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Alternatively you could do as the extensions folks do and actually define <code>Object#pp_s</code> so you can use it in your logs or anywhere else you may want to inspect an object. If you do this you probably want to change the <code>dump</code> helper method accordingly in case you decide to change <code>pp_s</code> in the future.
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**lib/local_support/core_ext/object.rb**
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```ruby
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class Object
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def pp_s
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pps = StringIO.new
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PP.pp(self, pps)
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pps.string
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end
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end
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```
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