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

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 can be used as follows: require 'colored2' puts 'this is red'.red puts 'this is red with a yellow background'.red.on.yellow puts 'this is red with and italic'.red.italic puts 'this is green bold'.green.bold << ' and regular'.green puts 'this is really bold blue on white but reversed'.bold.blue.on.white.reversed puts 'this is regular, but '.red! << 'this is red '.yellow! << ' and yellow.'.no_color! puts ('this is regular, but '.red! do 'this is red '.yellow! do ' and yellow.'.no_color! end end)

Color your shell strings

This is simple ruby gem for print color string on terminal.

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

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

Generate a color based on the given string (in the HSL color space).

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.

Colorize strings for terminal output

add color codes for mIRC compatible client

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

Apply ANSI terminal colors to strings

Adds methods to the String class for text color, background color, and text formatting options in ruby console and command line output, using ANSI escape sequences.

Make sense of any css color string.

Change string into a random RGB color value

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

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

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

Colorer adds the basic ANSI styles to any string, allowing also to define your own stiles

The terminal-display-colors gem adds color methods to String for easily adding color to terminal output.