ansispan

Ruby port of the JS ansispan library, with some enhancements.

Installation

Add to Gemfile and bundle

gem "ansispan"

Usage

require "ansispan"

ansi_text = "* \e[33m8fb4737\e[m\e[33m (\e[m\e[1;36mHEAD -> \e[m\e[1;32mmaster\e[m\e[33m, \e[m\e[1;31morigin/master\e[m\e[33m, \e[m\e[1;31morigin/HEAD\e[m\e[33m)\e[m rails new\n"
Ansispan.convert(ansi_text)
# => * <span style="color: yellow">8fb4737</span><span style="color: yellow"> (</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: cyan">HEAD -> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: green">master</span><span style="color: yellow">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: red">origin/master</span><span style="color: yellow">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: red">origin/HEAD</span><span style="color: yellow">)</span> rails new

The default escape character is \033 but you can pass your own to the convert method.

Ansispan.convert(ansi_text, escape_character: "\e")

Terminal output

HTML output

Ansi color reference

https://gist.github.com/Prakasaka/219fe5695beeb4d6311583e79933a009 (use \033 instead of \e) https://gist.github.com/Prakasaka/219fe5695beeb4d6311583e79933a009#gistcomment-3676483