support tables as strings instead of putsing about ruby-pg-extras HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi, thanks for an idea. But I'm not sure what's the use case? If you need output string to work with, why won't you use the JSON format?

Also this approach seems a bit complex. Maybe instead setting ENV["RUBY_PG_EXTRAS_NO_COLORS"] = true would disable the colorize method?

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Also, in addition to disabling colors with an ENV variable you could add a new in_format option e.g. ascii.

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I just want the table output as strings to be stored in files etc and not to spend time parsing json etc.

and my monkeypatch is not proposed implementation, just something I did fast.

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and another usecase is to for example have a sinatra etc route like

get "/table_info" do
PgExtras.table_info
end

again, much easier to output text instead of json+parse

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and, my monkeypatch is "that complex" because the pgextras code doesnt already have that ":ascii" format which would then be used by :table.

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like, instead, :table is formatting+puts in a one go, then it could be composer of :ascii+puts

anyway, just saying that pgextras could be refactored. I'm already good with my monkeypatch.

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Ok. I don't really see an urgent need for this feature, so if you don't feel like implementing it I'll close the issues for now.

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