I want to get something like this to look nice:
>> ProductColor.all
=> [#<ProductColor id: 1, name: "White", internal_name: "White", created_at: "2009-06-10 04:02:44", updated_at: "2009-06-10 04:02:44">, #<ProductColor id: 2, name: "Ivory", internal_name: "Ivory", created_at: "2009-06-10 04:02:44", updated_at: "2009-06-10 04:02:44">, #<ProductColor id: 3, name: "Blue", internal_name: "Light Blue", created_at: "2009-06-10 04:02:44", updated_at: "2009-06-10 04:02:44">, #<ProductColor id: 4, name: "Green", internal_name: "Green", created_at: "2009-06-10 04:02:44", updated_at: "2009-06-10 04:02:44">]
This doesn't work:
>> ProductColor.all.inspect
=> "[#<ProductColor id: 1, name: \"White\", internal_name: \"White\", created_at: \"2009-06-10 04:02:44\", updated_at: \"2009-06-10 04:02:44\">, #<ProductColor id: 2, name: \"Ivory\", internal_name: \"Ivory\", created_at: \"2009-06-10 04:02:44\", updated_at: \"2009-06-10 04:02:44\">, #<ProductColor id: 3, name: \"Blue\", internal_name: \"Light Blue\", created_at: \"2009-06-10 04:02:44\", updated_at: \"2009-06-10 04:02:44\">, #<ProductColor id: 4, name: \"Green\", internal_name: \"Green\", created_at: \"2009-06-10 04:02:44\", updated_at: \"2009-06-10 04:02:44\">]"
And neither does this:
>> ProductColor.all.to_yaml
=> "--- \n- !ruby/object:ProductColor \n attributes: \n name: White\n created_at: 2009-06-10 04:02:44\n updated_at: 2009-06-10 04:02:44\n id: \"1\"\n internal_name: White\n attributes_cache: {}\n\n- !ruby/object:ProductColor \n attributes: \n name: Ivory\n created_at: 2009-06-10 04:02:44\n updated_at: 2009-06-10 04:02:44\n id: \"2\"\n internal_name: Ivory\n attributes_cache: {}\n\n- !ruby/object:ProductColor \n attributes: \n name: Blue\n created_at: 2009-06-10 04:02:44\n updated_at: 2009-06-10 04:02:44\n id: \"3\"\n internal_name: Light Blue\n attributes_cache: {}\n\n- !ruby/object:ProductColor \n attributes: \n name: Green\n created_at: 2009-06-10 04:02:44\n updated_at: 2009-06-10 04:02:44\n id: \"4\"\n internal_name: Green\n attributes_cache: {}\n\n"
Thoughts?
The y method is a handy way to get some pretty YAML output.
y ProductColor.all
Assuming you are in script/console
As jordanpg commented, this answer is outdated. For Rails 3.2+ you need to execute the following code before you can get the y method to work:
YAML::ENGINE.yamler = 'syck'
From ruby-docs
In older Ruby versions, ie. <= 1.9, Syck is still provided, however it was completely removed with the release of Ruby 2.0.0.
For rails 4/ruby 2 you could use just
puts object.to_yaml