From: akbarhome <akbarhome@...>
Date: 2007-02-11T08:50:16+09:00
Subject: Re: ENV['COLUMNS']

On Feb 10, 3:48 pm, pedro mg <_nospam_s...@tquadrado.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in irb I can have access to ENV['COLUMNS'] for the # of columns in the
> shell, and works fine.
> But inside a script (ruby script.rb), I can't have access to that hash
> key and value.
> I've done a:
>

Because when you play with irb, it is clear that you use terminal/
console so ENV['COLUMNS'] does matter. But when you execute ruby
script, it is not clear whether this ruby script need terminal so
ENV['COLUMNS'] does not matter.