# awesome-print/awesome_print

Pretty print your Ruby objects with style -- in full color and with proper indentation

Repository: https://github.com/awesome-print/awesome_print
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome_print
Homepage: http://github.com/michaeldv/awesome_print
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-08-15T20:03:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5996, "days_push": 748, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4078, forks 450 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.388019+00:00)

## What it is
A Ruby library that pretty prints Ruby objects in full color with proper indentation, exposing their internal structure. It supports Rails ActiveRecord objects and usage within Rails templates via included mixins.

## Use cases
- pretty print ruby objects in the console
- inspect nested hashes and arrays with color
- debug ActiveRecord objects in Rails
- format object output in irb or pry
- read complex data structures with proper indentation

## When to choose
- you need readable, colorized output of Ruby objects during debugging
- you work in irb/pry and want better object inspection
- you want to visualize nested data structures in Ruby

## When to avoid
- you need machine-readable serialization like JSON or YAML
- you are not working in Ruby
- you need a debugger with breakpoints rather than output formatting

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, logging, serialization
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: ruby, cli
- tags: pretty-print, ruby-gem, console-output, colorized-output, debugging, irb, rails, command-line

## Member repositories
- awesome-print/awesome_print (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.388019+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:26.577491+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/awesome-print/awesome_print (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.388019+00:00, sha a15a6db68404)
  - homepage: http://github.com/michaeldv/awesome_print (fetched 2026-08-29T09:15:18.131114+00:00, sha e2520d7560a9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.