motion_print

A RubyMotion pretty printer.

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instead of using p or puts, use mp to log your debug values to the RubyMotion REPL.

Examples:

Colors don't show up correctly on github, so these are just examples of what you can do with motion_print. Try it out for yourself to see the more colorful output!

screen shot

mp "a string"

"a string"

mp :some_symbol

:some_symbol

mp [1, 'two', :three, 4.0]

[
  1,
  'two',
  :three,
  4.0
]

mp({b: "bee", a: 'a', see: 4})

{
  a     => a,
  b     => bee,
  see   => 4
}

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

Stable:

gem 'motion_print'

Bleeding Edge:

gem 'motion_print', github: 'MohawkApps/motion_print'

And then execute:

bundle

Roadmap

  1. Add more core objects people want to output: UIView, Struct, etc. Please open an issue to make suggestions or just implement it yourself and send me a pull request!
  2. ~~Test suite.~~

What about awesome_print_motion?

I used to be a big fan of awesome_print_motion. Then I ran the Instruments allocations profiler on an app that had a big loop with lots of ap statements. You should have seen the graph increase exponentially over a few seconds. Then I took a look at the actual awesome_print_motion source code. It's basically a direct port of the awesome_print gem and just modified to "work" with RubyMotion. There's all kinds of core class extensions and crazy threading things going on... way too complex for my needs to output a pretty version of an object or hash or array.

That, coupled with the fact that the developer of awesome_print_motion doesn't seem responsive to issues or pull requests, I decided to roll my own debugging tool specifically written for RubyMotion development.

awesome_print_motion is 793 lines of code and extends Array, Kernel, Class, and Object, and is not tested.

motion_print is 152 lines of code, adds one method each to String, and Kernel, and is fully tested (run rake spec to see the tests pass).

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

Contact

Mark Rickert (http://www.mohawkapps.com)

License

motion_print is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.