How to output my ruby commandline text in different colours

Question

How can I make the puts commands I output from a commandline based ruby program colour? I would appreciated any references to how I call each different colour also.

Lets

Answer 1

use escape sequence \033 instead of \e as it is 100% posix compatible and will work on bsd-ish (e.g. osx) systems as well. the latter is a gnu extension.