There's a couple gems that help with this in ruby. Coolline[1] colors syntax in the readline as you type. There's a gem[2] that integrates this with Pry[3] (an

There's a couple gems that help with this in ruby. Coolline[1] colors syntax in the readline as you type. There's a gem[2] that integrates this with Pry[3] (an alternative to irb). For colored output in Pry's REPL, awesome_print[4] can be integrated[5] using pry's .pryrc files. [1]https://github.com/Mon-Ouie/coolline [2]https://github.com/pry/pry-coolline [3]https://github.com/pry/pry [4]https://github.com/michaeldv/awesome_print [5]https://gist.github.com/004b0cdfccf0e29d83e3