p method in Ruby hard to search for

Question

I\'m trying to find info on the p method in Ruby. It seems to produce internal info on the properties of a class but when I try to search for it I get every wor

Answer 1

You can find more information about the p method from the Ruby documentation of the Kernel module:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/Kernel.html#method-i-p

p(obj) → obj

p(obj1, obj2, ...) → [obj, ...]

p() → nil

For each object, directly writes obj.inspect followed by a newline to the program’s standard output.

S = Struct.new(:name, :state)
s = S['dave', 'TX']
p s

produces:

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