Our handy Ray debugging app gained a cool new trick: it can now display the values of private properties and results of private methods.

Consider this simple class.

class PrivateClass
{
    private string $privateProperty = 'this is the value of the private property';

    private function privateMethod()
    {
        return 'this is the result of the private method';
    }
}

Here's how you can send the value of the private property to Ray.

$privateClass = new PrivateClass();

ray()->invade($privateClass)->privateProperty;

The invade() method can also display the results of private methods in Ray.

$privateClass = new PrivateClass();

ray()->invade($privateClass)->privateMethod();

If you want to colorize the result, simply tack on one of the color methods.

$privateClass = new PrivateClass();

ray()->invade($privateClass)->privateProperty->red();
ray()->invade($privateClass)->privateMethod()->green();

Ray can of course do a whole lot more: it can display all sort of debugging information, pause your code, measure the runtime, display all executed queries, and much more! You can discover it all on the Ray website.