Pretty dump variable/object in Symfony 2.*?

Question

When developing stuff I need to output the state of some instance in order to inspect it.

While using CakePHP I always had a debug() function which does some kind of var_dump inside a <pre> html element, so the content is readable.

Is something similar in Symfony 2.x too?

Answer 1

exit(\Doctrine\Common\Util\Debug::dump($someVar));