diff --git a/app/AppKernel.php b/app/AppKernel.php
index c35b166ce9..b4880d9733 100644
--- a/app/AppKernel.php
+++ b/app/AppKernel.php
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ public function registerBundles()
         );
 
         if (in_array($this->getEnvironment(), array('dev', 'test'))) {
+            $bundles[] = new Symfony\Bundle\DebugBundle\DebugBundle();
             $bundles[] = new Symfony\Bundle\WebProfilerBundle\WebProfilerBundle();
             $bundles[] = new Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\SensioDistributionBundle();
             $bundles[] = new Sensio\Bundle\GeneratorBundle\SensioGeneratorBundle();
diff --git a/app/autoload.php b/app/autoload.php
index 70526bb5e4..05b3e63fcb 100644
--- a/app/autoload.php
+++ b/app/autoload.php
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 
 use Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationRegistry;
 use Composer\Autoload\ClassLoader;
+use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\VarDumper;
+
+if (!function_exists('dump')) {
+    function dump($var)
+    {
+        foreach (func_get_args() as $var) {
+            VarDumper::dump($var);
+        }
+    }
+}
 
 /**
  * @var ClassLoader $loader