Question

Is there a quick way to output the value of variable in a rspec test? Something like this for example, in a controller to output a variable, I do:

raise variable.to_yaml

Is there something similar I can do in a rspec test to see the contents of a variable?

Answer 1

If you want the output to go into the log file (i.e. logs/test.log), you can use the rails logger.

Rails.logger.debug variable.inspect
Rails.logger.debug variable.to_yaml

If you want to see the output in the console, you can use the pretty printer ‘pp’.

require 'pp'

it 'does something'
  thing = Factory(:something)
  pp thing
end

Or you can use good ‘ol puts

puts thing.to_yaml