From: "list. rb" <list.rb@...>
Date: 2008-08-03T05:23:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Back on the List - Two questions

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Nice.. that was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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