Method: Exception#inspect

Defined in:
error.c

#inspect ⇒ String

Returns a string representation of self:

x = RuntimeError.new('Boom')
x.inspect # => "#<RuntimeError: Boom>"
x = RuntimeError.new
x.inspect # => "#<RuntimeError: RuntimeError>"

Returns:



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# File 'error.c', line 1835

static VALUE
exc_inspect(VALUE exc)
{
    VALUE str, klass;

    klass = CLASS_OF(exc);
    exc = rb_obj_as_string(exc);
    if (RSTRING_LEN(exc) == 0) {
        return rb_class_name(klass);
    }

    str = rb_str_buf_new2("#<");
    klass = rb_class_name(klass);
    rb_str_buf_append(str, klass);

    if (RTEST(rb_str_include(exc, rb_str_new2("\n")))) {
        rb_str_catf(str, ":%+"PRIsVALUE, exc);
    }
    else {
        rb_str_buf_cat(str, ": ", 2);
        rb_str_buf_append(str, exc);
    }

    rb_str_buf_cat(str, ">", 1);

    return str;
}