I measure my effort by the number of commands I had to enter on my terminal, the number of lines of Ruby code that I had to write, and the amount of HTML and embedded Ruby (ERb) lines I had to write.

First, here are some additional features that tput provides: extracting terminal information such as the devices, the number of columns and rows, and clearing data from the screen.

You first enable the console terminal (TTP) and associate the programmable asynchronous line controller (PAS) and magnetic tape controller (MT) to avoid device number conflicts.