From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-08-03T03:20:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Back on the List - Two questions

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:12 PM, list. rb <list.rb@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's been a while but it feels good to be back.
>
> I have a quick question for the group:
>
> Given the following:
>
> content = [
>      ["something special a", "ok cool a", "tahsnk a"],
>      ["something specccccccccial a", "ok cooooool a", "tahsnk a"]
> ]
> content.each {|i|
>       puts i.join("\t")
> }
> #something special a     ok cool a       tahsnk a
> #something specccccccccial a     ok cooooool a   tahsnk a
>
> I would like to print this out as such:
> something special a                     ok cool a            tahsnk a
> something specccccccccial a     ok cooooool a   tahsnk a
>
> I remember seeing a module or example like this somewhere.. Any ideas? I was
> thinking it was pretty print at first but after looking, I guess not?

Well, it's a bit like killing a mosquito with a bazooka, but you could
use Ruport for this:

>> require "rubygems"
=> true
>> require "ruport"
=> true
>> content = [
?>    ["something special a", "ok coola", "tahsnk a"],
?>    ["something speccccccccccccial a", "ok cooool a", "tahsnk a"]
>> ]
=> [["something special a", "ok coola", "tahsnk a"], ["something
speccccccccccccial a", "ok cooool a", "tahsnk a"]]
>> puts Table(:data => content)
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| something special a            | ok coola    | tahsnk a |
| something speccccccccccccial a | ok cooool a | tahsnk a |
+---------------------------------------------------------+

But if you don't want the decorations, you'd need to tweak things.
Feel free to take a look at the (not exactly pretty) source and re-use
whatever code you'd like:

http://github.com/ruport/ruport/tree/master/lib/ruport/formatter/text.rb


-greg

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