From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-08T04:39:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Need Solaris Help

On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Coey Minear wrote:

> ronald braswell writes:
>> On 8/7/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/7/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>>>> I'm told the following bit of code doesn't work on Solaris:
>>>>
>>>>        # A Unix savvy method to fetch the console columns, and  
>>>> rows.
>>>>        def terminal_size
>>>>         `stty size`.split.map { |x| x.to_i }.reverse
>>>>        end
>>>>
>>>> HighLine makes use of this method as does Capistrano by  
>>>> extension, so
>>>> we need find a portable solution.
>>>
>>> Ruport vendors this chunk of code, so sorry for the 'me too', but  
>>> me too!
>>>
>>>
>> This is not pretty but it works on my Solaris 10 x64 box.   But  
>> you may have
>> been looking
>> for something more elegant.
>>
>> if `stty` =~ /.*\brows = (\d+).*\bcolumns = (\d+)/
>>   rows    = $1
>>   columns = $2
>> end
>>
>> Ron
>
> Here's my stab at a cross-platform implementation:
>
>  def terminal_size
>    if /solaris/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM
>      output = `stty`
>      [output.match('columns = (\d+)')[1].to_i,
>       output.match('rows = (\d+)')[1].to_i]
>    else
>       `stty size`.split.map { |x| x.to_i }.reverse
>     end
>  end
>
> I did a quick test on Solaris (9 and 10), FreeBSD and Linux, and got
> the same results in every case.  (No guarantees on AIX, HP-UX, etc.)

Thanks all.  I appreciate the help.

James Edward Gray II