Question

class Test
def printsomething
p "lol"
end
end
teet = Test.new
p "#{teet.printsomething}"

Output for above code is "lol"\n"lol"

why is this happening? I am running ruby 1.9.2 Archlinux x86_64

Answer 1

p is an inspect not really meant to be used to output text string. What it does is prints out the literal content of an object not an escaped string.

Just replace p with puts

You can see what I mean if you do this:

p "#{teet}"
=> "#<Test:0x00000100850678>"

Notice how it’s inside quotes.