irb actually preserves ENV['COLUMNS']. If you try running that same command from within a proper ruby script, though, you'll find it returning nil.
- Jamis On Jan 12, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Wayne E. Seguin wrote: > > This may be too simplistic but couldn't you simply get the value > from a > simple system call? > > irb(main):001:0> `echo $COLUMNS`.strip.to_i > => 136 > > ~Wayne > > Jamis Buck wrote: >> Actually, looks like Ruby can't see the ENV["COLUMNS"] value (see >> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/211453). >> For now, I'll just drop that part of the patch and hard-code 80, >> until someone can come up with a platform-independent way of querying >> the terminal size. >> >> - Jamis >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
