cute. >> puts "this is red".red >> puts "this is red with a blue background (read: ugly)".red_on_blue >> puts "this is red with an underline".red.underline >> puts "this is really bold and really blue".bold.blue >> logger.debug "hey this is broken!".red_on_yellow # in rails >> puts Color.red "This is red" # but this part is mostly untested Windows users: You will need the Win32 Console Ansi gem. Get it: $ gem install win32console >> chris[at]ozmm[dot]org => http://github.com/defunkt