How to get the width of terminal window in Ruby

Question

Have you ever noticed that if you run rake -T in rails the list of rake descriptions are truncated by the width of the terminal window. So there should be a way to get it in Rub

Answer 1

If you want your code to work across platforms, here's what I use: http://github.com/cldwalker/hirb/blob/master/lib/hirb/util.rb#L61-71

Also check out the system_extensions file in highline