Rails - Oct 2007 - pretty-printing (or otherwise) a hash in a view template

I have some text boxes into which i want to output the contents of some
hashes, in the nice readable way we all know and love.  Can i use
pretty-print for this?  As far as i can tell, pp only works to standard
output and can''t be used to create text.

Is there another way to nicely print out the contents of a hash?

thanks!
max
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Max Williams wrote:
> I have some text boxes into which i want to output the contents of some
> hashes, in the nice readable way we all know and love.  Can i use
> pretty-print for this?  As far as i can tell, pp only works to standard
> output and can''t be used to create text.
> 
> Is there another way to nicely print out the contents of a hash?
> 
> thanks!
> max
I actually found out how to do this from another post somewhere - you 
can get the output of pp into a string with

text = PP.pp(myhash, "")

The resultant string has any quotes inside it escaped out.

thanks
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On 10/29/07, Max Williams
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> Is there another way to nicely print out the contents of a hash?
Give to_yaml a shot.  It''s a very readable way to dump ruby objects.

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James Moore wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Max Williams
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Is there another way to nicely print out the contents of a hash?
> 
> Give to_yaml a shot.  It''s a very readable way to dump ruby
objects.
> 
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> Ruby and Ruby on Rails consulting
> blog.restphone.com
That''s not what i''m after, though i agree that yaml is nice
and
readable. thanks anyway. :)

In addition to PP.pp(myhash, ""), btw, i discovered that
myhash.inspect
also works.
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