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A default pretty printing method for general objects. It calls pretty_print_instance_variables to list instance variables.
If self has a customized (redefined) inspect method, the
result of self.inspect is used but it obviously has no line break hints.
This module provides predefined pretty_print methods for some of the most commonly used built-in classes for convenience.
# File pp.rb, line 279
def pretty_print(q)
method_method = Object.instance_method(:method).bind(self)
begin
inspect_method = method_method.call(:inspect)
rescue NameError
end
if inspect_method && /\(Kernel\)#/ !~ inspect_method.inspect
q.text self.inspect
elsif !inspect_method && self.respond_to?(:inspect)
q.text self.inspect
else
q.pp_object(self)
end
end
A default pretty printing method for general objects that are detected as part of a cycle.
# File pp.rb, line 296
def pretty_print_cycle(q)
q.object_address_group(self) {
q.breakable
q.text '...'
}
end
Is inspect implementation using pretty_print. If you implement pretty_print, it can be used as follows.
alias inspect pretty_print_inspect
However, doing this requires that every class that inspect is called on implement pretty_print, or a RuntimeError will be raised.
# File pp.rb, line 318
def pretty_print_inspect
if /\(PP::ObjectMixin\)#/ =~ Object.instance_method(:method).bind(self).call(:pretty_print).inspect
raise "pretty_print is not overridden for #{self.class}"
end
PP.singleline_pp(self, '')
end
Returns a sorted array of instance variable names.
This method should return an array of names of instance variables as symbols or strings as: +[:@a, :@b]+.
# File pp.rb, line 307
def pretty_print_instance_variables
instance_variables.sort
end