Colorize printed text on ANSI terminals

Extends String class or add a ColorizedString with methods to set text color, background color and text effects.

>> puts "this is red".red >> puts "this is red with a blue background (read: ugly)".red_on_blue >> puts "this is red with an underline".red.underline >> puts "this is really bold and really blue".bold.blue >> logger.debug "hey this is broken!".red_on_yellow # in rails >> puts Color.red "This is red" # but this part is mostly untested

Rainbows and unicorns!

The ANSI project is a superlative collection of ANSI escape code related libraries eabling ANSI colorization and stylization of console output. Byte for byte ANSI is the best ANSI code library available for the Ruby programming language.

This library uses ANSI escape sequences to control the attributes of terminal output

Terminal strings styling with intuitive and clean API.

Terminal painter with RGB and 256 (fallback) color and terminal effects support. No string extensions! Usage: Paint['string', :red, :bright]