amazing_print

Amazing Print

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| AmazingPrint is a fork of AwesomePrint, which became stale, and should be used in its place to avoid conflicts. It is a Ruby library that pretty prints Ruby objects in full color, exposing their internal structure with proper indentation. Rails ActiveRecord objects and usage within Rails templates are supported via included mixins.

Supported Versions

• Ruby >= 3.2
• Rails >= 6.1

Installation

# Installing as Ruby gem
$ gem install amazing_print

# Cloning the repository
$ git clone git://github.com/amazing-print/amazing_print.git

Usage

require "amazing_print"
ap object, options = {}

Default options:

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Supported color names:

:gray, :red, :green, :yellow, :blue, :purple, :cyan, :white
:grayish, :redish, :greenish, :yellowish, :blueish, :purpleish, :cyanish, :whiteish

Use Object#ai to return an ASCII encoded string:

irb> "awesome print".ai
=> "\e[0;33m\"awesome print\"\e[0m"

Examples

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Example (Rails console)

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IRB integration

To use amazing_print as the default formatter in irb and the Rails console, add the following code to your ~/.irbrc file:

require "amazing_print"
AmazingPrint.irb!
AmazingPrint.rdbg! # Enables integration with ruby debug

PRY integration

If you miss amazing_print's way of formatting output, here's how you can use it in place of the formatting which comes with pry. Add the following code to your ~/.pryrc:

require "amazing_print"
AmazingPrint.pry!

Logger Convenience Method

amazing_print adds the ap method to the Logger and ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger classes letting you call:

logger.ap object

By default, this logs at the :debug level. You can override that globally with:

:log_level => :info

in the custom defaults (see below). You can also override it on a per call basis with:

logger.ap object, :warn
# or
logger.ap object, level: :warn

You can also pass additional options (providing nil or leaving off level will log at the default level):

logger.ap object, { level: :info, sort_keys: true }

ActionView Convenience Method

amazing_print adds the ap method to the ActionView::Base class making it available within Rails templates. For example:

   # ERB
!= ap @accounts.first       # HAML

With other web frameworks (for example in Sinatra templates) you can explicitly request HTML formatting:

 true %>

Colorizing Strings

Use methods such as .red to set string color:

irb> puts AmazingPrint::Colors.red("red text")
red text # (it's red)

Setting Custom Defaults

You can set your own default options by creating an aprc file in your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory (which defaults to ~/.config if undefined). Within that file assign your defaults to AmazingPrint.defaults. For example:

# ~/.config/aprc file.
AmazingPrint.defaults = {
  :indent => -2,
  :color => {
    :hash  => :whiteish,
    :class => :white
  }
}

The previous ~/.aprc location is still supported as a fallback.

Versioning

AmazingPrint follows the Semantic Versioning standard.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for information.

License

Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Michael Dvorkin and contributors

http://www.dvorkin.net

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Released under the MIT license. See LICENSE file for details.