DbgInspect

dbg_inspect provides Dbg.inspect/2 macro, which is an extended version of IO.inspect/1 function for the debug purposes.

Additional Features

• Prints representation of expression passed as the first argument
• Prints file name and line number where Dbg.inspect/2 was called
• Ability to print values of all variables used in the expression passed as the first argument
• Colored output
• Output to :stderr stream
• No affects prod environment

Example

  list = [1, 2, 3]
  zero = 0

  list
  |> Enum.map(&{&1, to_string(&1 * &1)})
  |> Enum.into(%{})
  |> Map.put(zero, to_string(zero))
  |> Dbg.inspect(show_vars: true)

Installation

The package can be installed by adding dbg to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:dbg_inspect, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/dbg.