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I built a Ruby gem so I don't have to squint at hash dumps anymore

Ender Ahmet Yurt on May 08, 2026

I love Ruby. I love the console. I do not love this: {:name=>"Alice", :score=>100, :active=>true} {:name=>"Bob", :score=>42, :act...

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Cor E • May 9

nice. I love ruby but haven't had a chance to use it in a while. Most corp projects are all Python. Great gem!

Ender Ahmet Yurt • May 10

Thanks! Means a lot coming from a fellow Ruby lover. Python may pay the bills, but Ruby stays in the heart. ❤️ Hope you get to use it more often!

Cor E • May 20

I love that saying! Absolutely! My next personal project is going to be in Ruby :P

Andy Stewart • May 9

As a developer, I know the pain of squinting at messy Hash dumps in the console. I really appreciate the 'zero-dependency, do one thing well' philosophy of typed_print. It brings much-needed clarity back to CLI output—the Markdown support, in particular, is a lifesaver for documentation. Great work!

Ender Ahmet Yurt • May 10

Wow, thank you! 🙏 You summed up the whole philosophy better than I could. "Do one thing well" – exactly that. The markdown feature was actually a user suggestion (v0.2.0). Best decision ever.

Really appreciate the kind words. Means a lot. ❤️

Andy Stewart • May 11

Spot on! That’s the beauty of the Unix philosophy. The Markdown addition proves that the best architecture 'grows' from user needs. Achieving that level of surgical simplicity and giving users true 'control' is exactly what we strive for as developers. Keep up the great work!

PracHub • May 9

You made a smart choice by focusing on making hash outputs readable without adding extra dependencies. The Markdown format option is great for those who appreciate self-documenting code samples. I'm curious about how "typed_print" deals with deeply nested hashes, as some tools struggle with that. By the way, I've been using prachub.com for system design questions, and their follow-up prompts have been more helpful than random forum threads. I'll definitely keep using them for my next mock interview.

Sabarish Rajamohan • May 12

This is awesome. I have always found it hard to see large outputs, and reading through them.

I especially like the markdown dump, since now every other AI tool prefers markdown now.
Any plans to extend this to other input types?

Ender Ahmet Yurt • May 12

Thank you! 🙏

Great point about AI tools and markdown – hadn't thought of that but you're totally right.

Other input types?

Currently just arrays of hashes. But JSON and CSV are on my radar. What did you have in mind?

Open to ideas if you want to open an issue on GitHub!

Thanks again 🙌

btw you can use like that

require 'csv'
data = CSV.parse(File.read("file.csv"), headers: true).map(&:to_h)
TypedPrint.print(data)