Today I Learned

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Ruby's `__LINE__`

Debugging a tough problem, with terse, unhelpful error messages? Sometimes puts driven development can only take you so far.

A corner of Ruby I sometimes forget about are the double-underscore methods on Object. Today I learned a new one: __LINE__.

Here it is in the console:

2.1.0 :001 > puts __LINE__
1
 => nil
2.1.0 :002 > puts __LINE__
2
 => nil
2.1.0 :003 > puts __LINE__
3
 => nil

Try putting this above and below code you think might be causing an issue.

A new tool for my debugging toolbox. 🔨

Documentation

h/t Brian Dunn

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