I cannot edit the issue (do not know why) so here is the code again:

--- a/timetable_converter/lib/progressbar.rb    Fri May 08 09:57:42 2009 +0200
+++ b/timetable_converter/lib/progressbar.rb    Mon May 11 10:28:01 2009 +0200
@@ -131,20 +131,8 @@
   end
   def get_width
-    # FIXME: I don't know how portable it is.
-    default_width = 80
-    begin
-      tiocgwinsz = 0x5413
-      data = [0, 0, 0, 0].pack("SSSS")
-      if @out.ioctl(tiocgwinsz, data) >= 0 then
-        rows, cols, xpixels, ypixels = data.unpack("SSSS")
-        if cols >= 0 then cols else default_width end
-      else
-        default_width
-      end
-    rescue Exception
-      default_width
-    end
+    require 'curses'
+    Curses.init_screen.maxx
   end
   def show

I'm not really maintaining this; I don't even remember why I made this fork in the first place. But feel free to fork it and work on it if you want.

I just made a github account so I can watch this gem. Should I be looking somewhere else to get updates on it?

Also here is a shorter fix to return the width.

`stty size`.split.last.to_i

I would add the fix myself like you said in your previous post but I have never used any kind of version control before and don't really understand forking to me it seems like it would get messy if people all over where making copies and editing them selves.

This is probably the best place to watch for updates, such as they are (that is, basically non-existent).

I encourage you to read up on git; check out the community book as a start. The forking model actually ends up working quite well.