Class: Symbol

Inherits:

Object

• Object
• Symbol

Defined in:

lib/core_ext/symbol.rb

Overview

Reopen the core Symbol class to represent #inspect_lit.

Instance Method Summary

• #inspect_lit ⇒ String

  Formats this symbol to look like a symbol literal so that object type will be inherently obvious when used in logging methods, etc.

Instance Method Details

#inspect_lit ⇒ String

Formats this symbol to look like a symbol literal so that object type will be inherently obvious when used in logging methods, etc.

Examples:

:test.inspect_lit      # => ":\"test\"" (or ':"test"')
:"ta-da!".inspect_lit  # => ":\"ta-da!\"" (or ':"ta-da!"')

Returns:

• (String) —

  a symbol literal representation of this object

# File 'lib/core_ext/symbol.rb', line 13

def inspect_lit
  %(:"#{self}")
end