Nicely formats debugging puts and pp statements in Textmate (for Rspec).
Sometimes you need to do things like this:
puts "Let's see what is going on here..."
pp MyClass.new
And usually see just this on the screen:
Let's see what is going on here...
#
You can right-click to inspect element, but that's a pain.
Drop the textmate_puts_helper.rb in your spec folder
require 'textmate_puts_helper'
Watch as your objects appear as you would expect:
If you define a method 'pp' on any class instance, this will be used when using 'pp'.
For instance, I have a bunch of datamapper classes, and I want to see them in a nice format, so I do this:
module PrettyPrinter
def self.included(c)
c.class_eval do
def pp *args
puts JSON.pretty_generate(self.as_json)
end
end
end
end
And in my class I add
class MyClass < DataMapper::Resource
include PrettyPrinter
...
I can then do this in spec:
it "should have a programmer who understands what is going on in a strange scenario" do
confusion = MyClass.create(:emotion => "confused", :description => "oddness")
pp confusion
confusion.should_not be_blank
end
and see this output in the Textmate rspec window:
{
'id' => 1,
'description' => "oddness",
'emotion' => "confused"
}
Hope this is of some use to someone!