IO.console is nil when running inside a Spring process

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue inside a Spring process and compare IO.console.winsize with the Rake approach linked in the report. Trace how the Spring process handles its console IO; done means IO.console is available there or the supported console-width behavior is documented and covered by a regression test.

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Description

bug

I'm trying to make something that goes the full width of the console.

Typically I can do this either by stealing the bit from rake here or by using IO.console.winsize.

I prefer IO.console.winsize because it's exponentially faster than shelling out. Unfortunately, when running a spring process, IO.console is nil. The rake method still works, however, as I mentioned, it's very slow comparatively.

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