Print Horizontal Line in Ruby

Question

Can ruby's puts or print draw horizontal line kind of like bash does with printf+tr does ?

printf '%20s\n' | tr ' ' -

this will draw:

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Answer 1

You can use the following snippet

puts "-"*20

Check this for more help.

You might be interested in formatting using ljust, rjust and center as well.

Answer 2

I use a quick puts "*"*80 for debug purposes. I'm sure there are better ways.