On 11 Sep 2008, at 09:42, Francis Fish wrote:

> I also wrote this to dump a string into a file (good for debugging  
> XML output and creating files to send to people) and put it in  
> my .irbrc
>
> http://www.pastie.org/270334

I fleshed this idea out a bit!

http://aviewfromafar.net/2008/9/11/send-to_s-and-inspect-to-a-file-in-irb

Easy to make it work for any object, and I added support for inspect too

Could even go as far as automatically creating a #to_X_to_file method  
for every #to_X method, eg #to_xml, #to_json.  But it's not that hard  
to go object.to_xml.to_file

Ashley

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