# Rainbow

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Rainbow is a ruby gem for colorizing printed text on ANSI terminals.

It provides a string presenter object, which adds several methods to your
strings for wrapping them in [ANSI escape
codes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code). These codes when printed
in a terminal change text attributes like text color, background color,
intensity etc.

## Usage

To make your string colored wrap it with `Rainbow()` presenter and call
`.color(<color name>)` on it.

### Example

```ruby
require 'rainbow'

p Rainbow("this is red").red + " and " + Rainbow("this on yellow bg").bg(:yellow) + " and " + Rainbow("even bright underlined!").underline.bright

# => "\e[31mthis is red\e[0m and \e[43mthis on yellow bg\e[0m and \e[4m\e[1meven bright underlined!\e[0m"
```

### Rainbow presenter API

Rainbow presenter adds the following methods to presented string:

* `color(c)` (with `foreground`, and `fg` aliases)
* `background(c)` (with `bg` alias)
* `bright`
* `underline`
* `blink`
* `inverse`
* `hide`
* `italic` (not well supported by terminal emulators).

Text color can also be changed by calling a method named by a color:

* `black`
* `red`
* `green`
* `yellow`
* `blue`
* `magenta`
* `cyan`
* `white`

All of the methods return `self` (the presenter object) so you can chain method
calls:

```ruby
Rainbow("hola!").blue.bright.underline
```

### String mixin

If you don't like wrapping every string you want to colorize with `Rainbow()`
you can include all the rainbow presenter methods directly in a String class by
requiring `rainbow/ext/string`:

```ruby
require 'rainbow/ext/string'

puts "this is red".color(:red) + " and " + "this on yellow bg".background(:yellow) + " and " + "even bright underlined!".underline.bright
```

This way of using Rainbow is not recommended though as it pollutes String's
public interface with methods that are presentation specific.

NOTE: the mixing doesn't include shortcut methods for changing text color, you
should use "string".color(:blue) instead of "string".blue

NOTE: the mixin is included in String by default in rainbow versions up to (and
including) 1.99.x to not break backwards compatibility. It won't be included by
default in rainbow 2.0.

### Color specification

Both `color` and `background` accept color specified in any
of the following ways:

* color number (where 0 is black, 1 is red, 2 is green and so on):
  `Rainbow("hello").color(1)`

* color name as a symbol (:black, :red, :green, :yellow, :blue,
  :magenta, :cyan, :white):
  `Rainbow("hello").color(:yellow)`.
  This can be simplified to `Rainbow("hello").yellow`

* RGB triplet as separate values in the range 0-255:
  `Rainbow("hello").color(115, 23, 98)`

* RGB triplet as a hex string:
  `Rainbow("hello").color("FFC482")` or `Rainbow("hello").color("#FFC482")`

When you specify a color with a RGB triplet rainbow finds the nearest match
from 256 colors palette. Note that it requires a 256-colors capable terminal to
display correctly.

### Configuration

Rainbow can be enabled/disabled globally by setting:

```ruby
Rainbow.enabled = true/false
```

When disabled all the methods return an unmodified string
(`Rainbow("hello").red == "hello"`).

It's enabled by default, unless STDOUT/STDERR is not a TTY or a terminal is
dumb.

### Advanced usage

`Rainbow()` and `Rainbow.enabled` operate on the global Rainbow wrapper
instance. If you would like to selectively enable/disable coloring in separate
parts of your application you can get a new Rainbow wrapper instance for each
of them and control the state of coloring during the runtime.

```ruby
rainbow_one = Rainbow.new
rainbow_two = Rainbow.new

rainbow_one.enabled = false

Rainbow("hello").red          # => "\e[31mhello\e[0m" ("hello" if not on TTY)
rainbow_one.wrap("hello").red # => "hello"
rainbow_two.wrap("hello").red # => "\e[31mhello\e[0m" ("hello" if not on TTY)
```

By default each new instance inherits enabled/disabled state from the global
`Rainbow.enabled`.

This feature comes handy for example when you have multiple output formatters
in your application and some of them print to a terminal but others write to a
file. Normally rainbow would detect that STDIN/STDERR is a TTY and would
colorize all the strings, even the ones that go through file writing
formatters. You can easily solve that by disabling coloring for the Rainbow
instances that are used by formatters with file output.

## Windows support

For Windows support, you should install the following gems:

```ruby
gem install windows-pr win32console
```

If the above gems aren't installed then all strings are returned unmodified.

## Installation

Add it to your Gemfile:

```ruby
gem 'rainbow'
```

Or just install it via rubygems:

```ruby
gem install rainbow
```

## Authors

[Marcin Kulik](http://ku1ik.com/) and [great open-source contributors](https://github.com/sickill/rainbow/graphs/contributors).