If you want a piece of code to print messages to the console only in a debug phase, is there a better alternative to;

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  • Defining a global const DEBUG in its own file.
DEBUG = true
  • importing (requiring) it in all concerned code files.
  • printing conditionally:
if DEBUG
    puts "Oops!"
end
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Use log module.

require "log"

Log.setup(:debug)

Log.debug {"Oops!"}
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Perfect. Thank you!

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Also, you can try GitHub - Sija/debug.cr: Debug macro for Crystal

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That’s beautiful!!