Fixed the behaviour of Table when the specified width exceeds column width

[bcandrea]

This should fix issues/23.

[bcandrea]

If you don't care about the overall table width, having fields with unknown length should be already handled by the default behaviour of the Table object. On the other hand, if you still want the table to have a fixed width, I guess the only option is to either throw an Error or add a style modifier to truncate the contents artificially:

rows << ['Four', 'A' * 120]
table = Terminal::Table.new
table.headings = ['Word', 'Number']
table.rows = rows
table.style = {:width => 80, :truncate => true}

# > puts table
#
# +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
# | Word                                 | Number                                |
# +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
# | One                                  | 1                                     |
# | Two                                  | 2                                     |
# | Three                                | 3                                     |
# | Four                                 | AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... |
# +--------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+

[jwarykowski]

Hey all, is this likely to be fixed soon?

[achanda]

Can I help in merging this? We have a number of bugs depending on this.

[darrencauthon]

I came across this same issue, started to write a PR but found this. Is this to be merged?

[hakunin]

...year and a half later. whats the status on this?

[nateberkopec]

Thanks!

[darrencauthon]

Thank you @nateberkopec ! 👍