p method in Ruby hard to search for

Question

I'm trying to find info on the p method in Ruby. It seems to produce internal info on the properties of a class but when I try to search for it I get every word that has the letter p in it.

Answer 1

Have you seen the api doc page? http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M006002

Answer 2

Do you need more than this?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M006002

Answer 3

Each method you can call "directly", e.g: print, p, abort, puts, readline, etc., is located in the Kernel class.

(Kernel.methods - Object.methods).sort.each do |method|
   puts method
end

Answer 4

Do you mean like:

ri Kernel#p

Answer 5

RubyBrain is very useful, I find.

p method on RubyBrain.