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instance method

Symbol#inspect

inspect → string

Returns a string representation of self (including the leading colon):

Example
:foo.inspect # => ":foo"

Related: Symbol#to_s, Symbol#name.

See also #id2name #intern #end_with? #length also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0