Looking for gem for text based screen IO

[Dale Ackerman]

Hi,

I wanted to control the output, position of output to the console. Like
old school text based application. I have a utility that is runing
through many item and would like to show a status instead of puts()


-dale

 

[Matt Lawrence]

I wanted to control the output, position of output to the console. Like
old school text based application. I have a utility that is runing
through many item and would like to show a status instead of puts()

Take a look at the ncurses package.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.

 

[Colin Bartlett]

I wanted to control the output, position of output to the console. =A0Lik= e
old school text based application. =A0I have a utility that is runing
through many item and would like to show a status instead of puts()

Matt Lawrence suggested ncurses, and there's a thread here on curses.
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/336718
including this which has an example which seems to work.
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/336742