# Question on curses and ncurses

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-curses-and-ncurses/146584>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 22, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-curses-and-ncurses/146584 "2008-08-22T17:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-curses-and-ncurses/146584/1 "2008-08-22T17:00:00Z")

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I’m using Ruby on OS X, which comes with ncurses. If I ‘require  
curses’, will I still have access to all of the additional ncurses  
functionality? Or do I need to install an ncurses module?

Thanks,  
Ken

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**Author:** ![Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kenneth\_McDonald](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kenneth_McDonald)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-on-curses-and-ncurses/146584/2 "2008-09-12T13:46:38Z")

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Kenneth McDonald wrote:

> I’m using Ruby on OS X, which comes with ncurses. If I ‘require  
> curses’, will I still have access to all of the additional ncurses  
> functionality? Or do I need to install an ncurses module?

I have started looking into curses and ncurses. The curses that comes  
with ruby 1.8 covers some basic stuff. ncurses-ruby has some more, you  
can install it with gem install ncurses.

I am looking at something called Term::Visual which does not have a gem.  
Trying to get it to work. After doing ruby setup.rb (config , setup and  
then install) into /opt/local it still is looking for “eventmanager”.  
However, there seems to be no gem or anything else in ruby called  
eventmanager.

/opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
`gem_original_require': no such file to load -- eventmanager (LoadError) from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/term/visual.rb:4  
from  
/opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
`gem_original_require' from /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’  
from ex2.rb:2