how to manually specify backend version

Is there any way to manually (and cleanly) choose the backend version that io-console uses for consoles? For background, I'm working in JRuby within a `ScriptingContainer` with piped input and output streams. I'm running IRB within this, which works for the most part, but on Linux systems I get this output when I run statements in IRB: ``` irb(main):001> puts "world wide web wide" puts "world wide web wide" world wide web wide An error occurred when inspecting the object: #<Errno::EBADF: Bad file descriptor - ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ)> Result of Kernel#inspect: nil uri:classloader:/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/stdlib/io/console/native_console.rb:99:in 'winsize': Bad file descriptor - ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ) (Errno::EBADF) from uri:classloader:/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/stdlib/reline/io/ansi.rb:190:in 'get_screen_size' from uri:classloader:/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/stdlib/reline.rb:208:in 'get_screen_size' from uri:classloader:/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/stdlib/forwardable.rb:240:in 'get_screen_size' from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1658:in 'loop' from org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1397:in 'catch' from <script>:1:in '<main>' ``` I tracked this back using the stack trace to the native console being chosen because this is Linux box. I hadn't encountered it previously as I was working on a Windows machine, and I [managed to work around this](https://github.com/goatshriek/ruby-dragon/blob/9dbeb8d41851af4c6081756ebf478d685c33c449/src/main/resources/scripts/ruby-init.rb) by tricking the chosen console into always being the stub: ```rb # before we require irb, we need to make sure that io-console uses the stub # console, since the STDIN stream we are using isn't a normal terminal host_os = RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'] RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'] = 'windows' require 'irb' # now that irb has loaded, we can switch the host os back RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'] = host_os ``` This seems a little hacky though. I see this text in [lib/ffi/io/console.rb](https://github.com/ruby/io-console/blob/master/lib/ffi/io/console.rb): > This will produce surprising results if anyone is actually using io/console against non-stdio ttys...but that case seems like it would be pretty rare. I suspect I am in one of these rare cases. I fully accept that I'm already in the "doing weird things" territory so if that workaround is the best I can do, then I'll work with that. But I just want to make sure I'm not missing a better solution.