I remember Raganwald talking about something similar. http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/01/objectandand-objectme-in-ruby.html http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/0

I remember Raganwald talking about something similar. http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/01/objectandand-objectme-in-ruby.html http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/01/objectandand-objectme-in... Scroll down and he talks about #tap in Ruby 1.9, which he uses to insert a "tap" into a long method chain to figure out what's going on there, instead of having to break the chain and store the results in a variable in order to inspect it.