class String
  def colorize(color, options = {})
    background = options[:background] || options[:bg] || false
    style = options[:style]
    offsets = ["gray","red", "green", "yellow", "blue", "magenta", "cyan","white"]
    styles = ["normal","bold","dark","italic","underline","xx","xx","underline","xx","strikethrough"] # xx = not defined
    start = background ? 40 : 30
    color_code = start + (offsets.index(color) || 8)
    style_code = styles.index(style) || 0
    "\e[#{style_code};#{color_code}m#{self}\e[0m"
  end
end