Ruby on Rails: Pretty Print for Variable.Hash_Set.Inspect ... How to Pretty Print .Inpsect in the Console

Ruby on Rails: pretty print for variable.hash_set.inspect ... is there a way to pretty print .inpsect in the console?

you could use the awesome_print gem for that.

https://github.com/michaeldv/awesome_print

require 'awesome_print' # if you like to have it in irb by default, add it to your irbrc
>> ap({:a => 1, :b => [1,2,3], :c => :d})
{
    :b => [
        [0] 1,
        [1] 2,
        [2] 3
    ],
    :a => 1,
    :c => :d
}

btw, instead of puts object.inspect you can also just use p object which calls inspect in the object before printing it.
another way to print objects a little nicer than the default puts is to use pp from the ruby stdlib ( http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/pp/rdoc/index.html )

Shortcut for showing list of hashes nicely

AS said in my comments, I like to use y hash or puts YAML.dump(hash) that shows your hash in yaml. It can be used for other objects too.

h = {:a => 1, :b => 2, :c => 3}
# => {:a=>1, :b=>2, :c=>3}
y h
#---
#:a: 1
#:b: 2
#:c: 3
# => nil 

There is also an informative answer about it.

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