Spiffup

Make your stdout shine

Presentation

This library provides means to 'prettify' output in Ruby.

Installation

Gemfile

gem 'spiffup'

Terminal

gem install -V spiffup

Usage

Output colorization via tags

Output can be colorized simply by adding tags within the text: The RST tag can be used to reset the color. Bold text can be produced by using the 'BXXX' tag constants (BGREEN, BRED, ...).

require 'spiffup'
puts "This is #{Spiffup::GREEN}green#{Spiffup::RST}"

Direct string colorization

Entire strings can be directly colorized by using the monkey-patched methods .red, .green, .blue, ... Also available are .bred, .bgreen, .bblue methods for bold text.

require 'spiffup'
currency = 'CHF'
amount = 52.4
price = "#{amount} #{currency}"
puts "Total price: #{price.green}"

Available Colors

The 8 classical terminal colors are available as the following:

• black
• red
• green
• brown
• blue
• magenta
• cyan
• gray

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.