Concolor

With Concolor you can change the fore- and background colors and text decorations when rendering text on terminals supporting ANSI escape codes. It adds the concolor method to String objects.

Gem development information and current project status:

Just install the concolor gem

gem install concolor

or if you use bundler put this in your Gemfile

gem 'concolor'

require 'concolor'

puts 'Some text'.concolor(:bold, :red)
# "\033[31;1mSome text\033[0m"

Foreground color	code	color	Background color	code
:default	29		:bg_default	49
:black	30		:bg_black	40
:red	31		:bg_red	41
:green	32		:bg_green	42
:yellow	33		:bg_yellow	43
:blue	34		:bg_blue	44
:magenta	35		:bg_magenta	45
:cyan	36		:bg_cyan	46
:light_gray	37		:bg_light_gray	47
:dark_gray	90		:bg_dark_gray	100
:light_red	91		:bg_light_red	101
:light_green	92		:bg_light_green	102
:light_yellow	93		:bg_light_yellow	103
:light_blue	94		:bg_light_blue	104
:light_magenta	95		:bg_light_magenta	105
:light_cyan	96		:bg_light_cyan	106
:white	97		:bg_white	107