Some common tasks in the development business are done no matter the programming language you use. Debugging is one of those tasks. While developing web applications I often need to debug the View layer and it is kind of a tedious job to write while loops to inspect variables values, for example.

Rails provides some interesting helper methods for your views:

• debug
• to_yaml

debug

This helper method will return the information about any object in YAML format, which is very human readable. To use this command, just type: