# Newbie Question - Ruby terminal emulator for windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-ruby-terminal-emulator-for-windows/150126>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 4, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-ruby-terminal-emulator-for-windows/150126 "2008-10-04T02:49:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![WholeSum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/898d66/32.png) [@WholeSum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/WholeSum)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-ruby-terminal-emulator-for-windows/150126/1 "2008-10-04T02:49:26Z")

</div>

I am new to ruby and rails, and am using the windows “cmd” terminal  
emulator.  
It is all black and white. I like the colored terminal I see in peepcode  
videos and the like.

Are there any terminal emulators for vista that will give me those type  
of  
colored results?

Alternatively, and preferably, is there a terminal emulator for RadRails  
yet? After 2 hours of searching, I have learned a ton of stuff, but  
don’t  
have a good windows terminal emulator yet.

Help!

## Mark

View this message in context:  
[http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-Question---Ruby-terminal-emulator-for-windows-tp19804822p19804822.html](http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-Question---Ruby-terminal-emulator-for-windows-tp19804822p19804822.html)  
Sent from the RubyOnRails Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![WholeSum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/898d66/32.png) [@WholeSum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/WholeSum)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-ruby-terminal-emulator-for-windows/150126/2 "2008-10-06T23:05:01Z")

</div>

I’d like to know the answer to this myself, but until you get an  
authoritative answer–have you tried the cygwin bash prompt? That  
probably responds to the ANSI color escapes that you need to do color  
right (tho I confess a quick ‘script/console’ on my XP machine here did  
not make w/the colors ☹

I believe ms’ powershell has facilities for coloring output, but doesn’t  
(shocker!) use the ANSI escapes…

HTH,

-Roy

* * *

From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
[[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of WholeSum  
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 2:58 PM  
To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
Subject: [Rails] Newbie Question - Ruby terminal emulator for windows

I am new to ruby and rails, and am using the windows “cmd” terminal  
emulator. It is all black and white. I like the colored terminal I see  
in peepcode videos and the like. Are there any terminal emulators for  
vista that will give me those type of colored results? Alternatively,  
and preferably, is there a terminal emulator for RadRails yet? After 2  
hours of searching, I have learned a ton of stuff, but don’t have a good  
windows terminal emulator yet. Help! Mark

* * *

View this message in context: Newbie Question - Ruby terminal emulator  
for  
windows[http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-Question---Ruby-terminal-emulator-for-windows-tp19804822p19804822.html](http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-Question---Ruby-terminal-emulator-for-windows-tp19804822p19804822.html)  
Sent from the RubyOnRails Users mailing list  
archive[http://www.nabble.com/RubyOnRails-Users-f13831.html](http://www.nabble.com/RubyOnRails-Users-f13831.html) at  
[Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com).