From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-12-09T03:07:37+09:00
Subject: Re: autotest, unit-diff, and color output?


Rob Sanheim wrote:
> I'm using autotest with all its test driven goodness, and I believe
> that uses unit-diff to present a "saner" view of test difference
> output.
>
> I'd like to do colorize the output from unit-diff so its similar to
> what you see on a changeset on trac, for instance.  Does anyone know
> anything that can colorize diffs in ruby, or know of a good starting
> point?  Or at least where to start for outputting color in the
> terminal, so I can do "#{color.red} stuff" instead of using control
> characters.

you can try facets' ansicode lib written primarily by Florian Frank.

t.