23.04.2024・TechStuff
23.04.2024・TechStuff

Ruby as a PHP developer

Fabian Blechschmidt

I wrote my first pull request into a Ruby project! Although I never coded ruby before, it does what it should ?

As a PHP developer, the most important part was to get debugging output. I tried to make a debugger work, but it didn’t. So back to „var_dump debugging“…

var_dump in Ruby

I had no clue how to get any output in Ruby, and some searching brought up:

puts object.inspect

And to make the program stop after it, add a raise

puts object.inspect
raise "Stop the program here"

All this is no news. The only reason I write this blogpost is to help search engines to map puts .inspect to var_dump 🙂