This is a heavily modified fork of http://github.com/defunkt/colored gem, with many sensible pull requests combined. Since the authors of the original gem no longer support it, this might, perhaps, be considered a good alternative. Simple gem that adds various color methods to String class, and ...

A simple monkeypatch for String that adds support for standard ASCII escape sequences, including color, video attributes, and cursor placement.

A simple library for coloring text output. Heavily inspired from term-ansicolor and rainbow, I recommend using these gems for more complex color needs. By default this gem does not do any core extension. When mixed in String it only add two methods: color and uncolor. Paint is another gem similar...

Provides a set of encapsulated methods for nested colorization of strings.

A very simple DSL to generate a colored shell prompt string to use in *nix OS terminals. it might be used to generate a valid string to be used as a prompt or to generated strings that represent colored text on a terminal.

A very simple helper for outputting strings in color. For exmaple, simply require 'colorme' and issue "Hello World!".color(:red)

Extends the String class to allow you to do things like: { "Hi mom".red.on_blue.underline }. (Works under Win32 with "Win32/Console/ANSI".)

Paint your strings for prettier console output. Description should not equal summary.

Provides string extensions for terminal color output

A library for coloring strings.

Parses hashes or JSON files and generates LS_COLORS compatible config strings.

Change string into a random RGB color value

String, Array, Hash, and Fixnum are different colors

Colorize strings for terminal output

Fill strings that have placeholders like [color], possibly returning multiple results.

Adds color methods to String class. Also allows for string wrapping that accounts for color escape codes.

Safe coloring extensions of String.

Ruby String class extension. Adds methods to set text color, background color and, text effects on ruby console and command line output, using ANSI escape sequences.

The productive gem to put colorful string in Linux

IQ::Color provides simple classes for representing colour values and the conversion to and from CSS3 strings.