From: Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@...>
Date: 2010-01-25T06:44:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for gem for text based screen IO

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Dale Ackerman <dale8458@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wanted to control the output, position of output to the console.  Like
> old school text based application.  I have a utility that is runing
> through many item and would like to show a status instead of puts()

Matt Lawrence suggested ncurses, and there's a thread here on curses.
  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/336718
including this which has an example which seems to work.
  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/336742