Ruby puts command
Ruby’s puts command will lead the ‘most used command’ competition in the language. It’s probably the first command you run when you fire up irb, or write HelloWorld.rb. I have been using it from day 1, for debugging, printing out the progress of long running scripts and so on. I recently found couple of nifty things you can do with puts command:
- You can pass it multiple arguments and it will print them on the screen with a line break, for example:
irb(main):001:0> puts "First", "day" First day => nil
- Secondly, you can pass it an array of elements, and it will print the elements with a line break, for example:
irb(main):004:0> puts ["Second", "Day"] Second Day => nil
Hope you can use this to replace multiple calls to puts in your code.