About

Extension for Ruby string class. Extension add methods for coloring text or background in Terminal. Also add some text effects. Support 256 colors.

Features

  • String.color ( color: black, red, green, yelow, blue, magenta, cyan, white )
  • String.on_color( background colors same )
  • String.bright
  • String.underline
  • String.blink
  • String.negative
  • String.hide

Also avaliable class CLI to view all methods and colors.

$ coloring

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'coloring'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install coloring

Usage

Add line:

require 'coloring'

For base methods:

puts "Hello, World!".green
puts "Hello, World!".underline

For call coloring method: 

puts "Hello, World!".coloring(:green)
puts "Hello, World!".coloring("green")

For more params:

puts "Hello, World!".green.underline
puts "Hello, World".green.on_red.underline
puts "Hello, World!".coloring [:green, :on_red, :underline]
puts "Hello, World!".coloring ["green", "on_red", "underline"]
puts "Hello, World!".coloring(:green).on_red
puts "Hello, World!".coloring([:green, :underline]).on_red

For 256 colors ( use CLI to show avaliable colors ):

puts "Hello, World!".coloring(:color => :green, :background = > :yellow)
puts "Hello, World!".coloring(:color => "green", :background => "yellow")
puts "Hello, World!".coloring(color: "green", background: "yellow")
puts "Hello, World!".coloring(color: 211, background: 35)  
puts "Hello, World!".coloring(color: 211).on_green

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

Author

DoZator, 2012

Sorry for my English )