Colors in Ruby Console Using Wirble
20 Dec 2009
Tags:
log, console, gem, wirble
If you want to have colors in your console, install the wirble gem (Read the documentation).
For some reason, I can't override the colors when I follow the instructions in the README. In case someone's also experiencing this, you can try merging the colors in the Wirble::Colorize::DEFAULT_COLORS constant. Then call the init and colorize methods.
Here's mine (same as with vim's syntax highlighting for ruby and haml).
ruby
Wirble::Colorize::DEFAULT_COLORS.merge!({ # delimiter colors :comma => :none, :refers => :none, # container colors (hash and array) :open_hash => :purple, :close_hash => :purple, :open_array => :purple, :close_array => :purple, # object colors :open_object => :light_red, :object_class => :white, :object_addr_prefix => :blue, :object_line_prefix => :blue, :close_object => :light_red, # symbol colors :symbol => :red, :symbol_prefix => :red, # string colors :open_string => :purple, :string => :red, :close_string => :purple, # misc colors :number => :red, :keyword => :brown, :class => :green, :range => :none })
