CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby
Ratatouille
Ratatouille

Reputation: 1492

Show object as name value pair instead of instance variable

I'm trying to implement a gem that is redis wrapper for other library i.e to store the ruby object in the redis.

all work well but what I want is when I do

[Class].all It give object like this

[#<Peagon:0x007fba589de3a0 @name="a", @omg=false ,@payload="one",@handler="--- one\n...\n"> ,#<Peagon:0x007fba589de1a0 @name="b", @omg=true,@payload="two",@handler="--- two\n...\n">]

but instead I want it to be look like how active record present the object

[#<Peagon name: "a",omg: false ,handler: "--- one\n...\n"> ,#<Peagon name="b", omg: true,handler: "--- two\n...\n">]

The reason for this that I not interested in showing the user the @payload instance variable because that is something set by the other library

so basically like this happen [My gem] 

class Peagon
 include SomeModule
 attr_accessor :name,:omg,:handler 
 def initialize(options)
   @name = options[:name]
   @omg  = options
   self.payload_object = options[:payload_object]
 end

end

Now the [Other Library] has this module in it

module SomeModule 
 def payload=(object)
   @payload ||= object
   self.handler = @payload.to_yaml

 end 

 def payload
   @payload ||= YAML.load(self.handler)
 end

end

NOTE :

Overwriting the payload method from other library is not in my mind

Now is it possible to get what I meant above

Upvotes: 0

Views: 132

Answers (1)

mu is too short
mu is too short

Reputation: 434795

Looks like you just want to adjust what irb, the Rails console, and friends will display for objects of your class. If so, they just call inspect:

inspect → string

Returns a string containing a human-readable representation of obj. By default, show the class name and the list of the instance variables and their values (by calling inspect on each of them). User defined classes should override this method to make better representation of obj.

So all you need to do is provide your own inspect implementation, something like:

def inspect
  "#<#{class} name: #{@name.inspect} ...>"
end

Upvotes: 1

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