I wrote a simple ruby string class extension to displays console colors easier using ANSI escape sequences. Links for project page, and documentation page.
Install:
# gem install colorize
Some examples:
puts "This is blue".colorize( :blue )
puts "This is light blue".colorize( :light_blue )
puts "This is also blue".colorize( :color => :blue )
puts "This is blue with red background".colorize( :color => :light_blue, :background => :red )
puts "This is blue with red background".colorize( :light_blue ).colorize( :background => :red )
puts "This is blue text on red".blue.on_red
puts "This is red on blue".colorize( :red ).on_blue
puts "This is uncolorized".blue.on_red.uncolorize
This thing should work on Windows too, but its untested. So if you check it out, please give me some feedback.
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