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How do I use (n)curses in Ruby?

I'd like to create a progress bar to indicate the status of an a batch job in Ruby.

I've read some tutorials / libraries on using (n)curses, none of which were particularly helpful in explaining how to create an "animated" progress bar in the terminal or using curses with Ruby.

I'm already aware of using a separate thread to monitor the progress of a given job, I'm just not sure how to proceed with drawing a progress bar.

Update

ProgressBar class was incredibly straight-forward, perfectly solved my problem.

Solution

  • You might be able to get some implementation ideas from the Ruby/ProgressBar library, which generates text progress bars. I stumbled across it a couple of months back but haven't made any use of it.