For the people who use ruby-debug, do you do anything to get it to output in color? I'm setting up wirble right now to colorize my irb, but it's not going to colorize pretty print (which, I believe comes from ruby-debug instead of irb)
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The rewrite of ruby-debug rb-trepanning (for a patched 1.9.2) and rbx-trepanning (for rubinius 1.2.x) support colorized listing and even assembly output via the CodeRay gem.
See https://github.com/rocky/rb-trepanning/wiki/Terminal-Colors and https://github.com/rocky/rbx-trepanning/wiki/Terminal-Colors
There is nothing in ruby-debug right now. If there is sufficient demand, that code could be back-ported to ruby-debug. But it would mean a new version of the source-code line caching gem linecache.

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I'm on 1.8.7, but I'll keep this in mind for when I upgrade. Thanks! – Eric Hu Mar 05 '11 at 01:11
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You most likely mean **MRI** 1.8.7. Rubinius is also at 1.8.7. (And JRuby supports both 1.8.7 and 1.9.x) – rocky Mar 05 '11 at 03:53
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I'm not sure--I think my version of ruby came with my Ubuntu install (10.10), if not, then it was a part of my Rails 3.0.4 install – Eric Hu Mar 07 '11 at 22:36