From 305eb5b031b1f2489e9963368358b7e9a16c0d00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JD Huntington <jedediah@trotter.local>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 23:49:09 -0700
Subject: added useful example for actionview's debug()

---
 actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/debug_helper.rb | 33 +++++++++++++---------
 .../lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb |  8 ++++--
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/debug_helper.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/debug_helper.rb
index 20de7e465f..ea70a697de 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/debug_helper.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/debug_helper.rb
@@ -2,21 +2,28 @@ module ActionView
   module Helpers
     # Provides a set of methods for making it easier to debug Rails objects.
     module DebugHelper
-      # Returns a <pre>-tag that has +object+ dumped by YAML. This creates a very
-      # readable way to inspect an object.
+      # Returns a YAML representation of +object+ wrapped with <pre> and </pre>.
+      # If the object cannot be converted to YAML using +to_yaml+, +inspect+ will be called instead.
+      # Useful for inspecting an object at the time of rendering.
       #
       # ==== Example
-      #  my_hash = {'first' => 1, 'second' => 'two', 'third' => [1,2,3]}
-      #  debug(my_hash)
       #
-      #  => <pre class='debug_dump'>--- 
-      #  first: 1
-      #  second: two
-      #  third: 
-      #  - 1
-      #  - 2
-      #  - 3
-      #  </pre>
+      #   @user = User.new({ :username => 'testing', :password => 'xyz', :age => 42}) %>
+      #   debug(@user)
+      #   # =>
+      #   <pre class='debug_dump'>--- !ruby/object:User 
+      #   attributes: 
+      #   &nbsp; updated_at: 
+      #   &nbsp; username: testing
+      #   
+      #   &nbsp; age: 42
+      #   &nbsp; password: xyz
+      #   &nbsp; created_at: 
+      #   attributes_cache: {}
+      #   
+      #   new_record: true
+      #   </pre>
+
       def debug(object)
         begin
           Marshal::dump(object)
@@ -28,4 +35,4 @@ module ActionView
       end
     end
   end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb
index e0a097e367..c0cba24be4 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb
@@ -271,9 +271,11 @@ module ActionView
         end
       end
 
-      # Returns a string of option tags for pretty much any country in the world. Supply a country name as +selected+ to
-      # have it marked as the selected option tag. You can also supply an array of countries as +priority_countries+, so
-      # that they will be listed above the rest of the (long) list.
+      # Returns a string of option tags for most countries in the
+      # world (as defined in COUNTRIES). Supply a country name as
+      # +selected+ to have it marked as the selected option tag. You
+      # can also supply an array of countries as +priority_countries+,
+      # so that they will be listed above the rest of the (long) list.
       #
       # NOTE: Only the option tags are returned, you have to wrap this call in a regular HTML select tag.
       def country_options_for_select(selected = nil, priority_countries = nil)
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