Putting a variable name = value format in Ruby
- by Calm Storm
Hi,
I would like to add some debugs for my simple ruby functions and I wrote a function as below,
def debug(&block)
varname = block.call.to_s
puts "#{varname} = #{eval(varname,block)}"
end
debug {:x} #prints x = 5
debug {:y} #prints y = 5
I understand that eval is evil. So I have two questions.
Is there any way to write that debug method without using eval? If NO is there a preferred way to do this?
Is there any way to pass a list of arguments to this method? I would ideally prefer debug {:x, :y. :anynumOfvariables}. I could not quite figure out how to factor that into the debug method (i.e, to take a list of arguments)
