From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2009-08-06T05:13:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Change console forground to Red or Green

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Laup-Dawg<adamlauper@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> 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.
>
> I don't even mind hard coding the console color code values (escape
> sequences), since those are the only two colors I'm planning on using.
>
> Any help would be appreciated...
>

Windows cmd.exe doesn't support ANSI escape sequences out of the box.
But the win32console gem will do the trick.

gem in win32console