How to output my ruby commandline text in different colours

Question

How can I make the puts commands I output from a commandline based ruby program colour? I would appreciated any references to how I call each different colour also.

Lets

Answer 1

I find the Colored gem to be the easiest and cleanest to use.

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