From: Thomas Chust <chust@...>
Date: 2009-08-06T04:43:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Change console forground to Red or Green

2009/8/5 Laup-Dawg <adamlauper@gmail.com>:
> [...]
> I'm looking for a way to change a Window's console foreground color in
> Ruby.  I have a script that outputs passes and fails and I would like
> to know how to change the text to green or red specfically.
> [...]

Hello,

if you want complex text user interface functionality, you can use
Curses. If you just want to color some of the output, the
term-ansicolor gem may be handy -- try something like this:

  require 'term/ansicolor'
  puts 'The test ' + Term::ANSIColor.red('failed')

cu,
Thomas


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