Rails - Jun 2006 - debugging

Hello-

If I am in the middle of a method in an ActiveRecord object or a
controller how can I just print something out to the screen and either
keep going or exit immediately?

If I am in a controller I can just generate some text and:

render :text => "my debug output"

But it would be nice to print something out to the output buffer and
then continue on. Additionally, if I am inside an ActiveRecord, I just
want to print something out and just die. In PHP I would just do a
print_r() on some data and then call die(). Is there similar "ghetto"
debugging facilities availabe?

Thanks!

On Jun 11, 2006, at 9:50 PM, William Langshaw wrote:
> Hello-
>
> If I am in the middle of a method in an ActiveRecord object or a
> controller how can I just print something out to the screen and either
> keep going or exit immediately?
>
> If I am in a controller I can just generate some text and:
>
> render :text => "my debug output"
>
> But it would be nice to print something out to the output buffer and
> then continue on. Additionally, if I am inside an ActiveRecord, I just
> want to print something out and just die. In PHP I would just do a
> print_r() on some data and then call die(). Is there similar
"ghetto"
> debugging facilities availabe?
>
> Thanks!
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