How can I colorize logger output in a rails 3 console

Question

How can I colorize and possibly bold the output from Rails.logger in my rails3 application?

Answer 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1286001/how-do-i-tell-activerecord-not-to-log-any-control-chars

just do the opposite, for active record

also see this link

http://joefiorini.com/post/64995867/coloring-in-the-rails-log-and-console

Answer 2

Be kind to other programmers, don't embed the escape sequences directly in your strings. Maybe use a library like Rainbow or Term-ANSIColor? Eg Term-ANSIColor:

require 'term/ansicolor'
include Term::ANSIColor

Rails.logger.add 1, "#{red(ATCHUNG!)}: pay attention to me!"