How can I display JSON in an easy-to-read (for human readers) format? I'm looking primarily for indentation and whitespace, with perhaps even colors / font-styles / etc.

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To display JSON in a human-readable format with indentation and optional styling like colors and font styles, you can use external tools or libraries. One popular choice is using a browser extension or online tool like JSONView, which formats and styles JSON data when displayed in a web browser. However, this won't work directly in a Ruby code example.

For within a Ruby script, you can use the JSON.pretty_generate method from the json standard library to achieve nicely indented JSON output. For adding colors, fonts, and styles, you might need to rely on external tools or libraries.

Here's an example of how to format JSON using the json library's pretty_generate method:

ruby
require 'json'

json_data = {
  name: 'John Doe',
  age: 30,
  email: 'john@example.com'
}

formatted_json = JSON.pretty_generate(json_data)

puts formatted_json

Output:

perl
{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "age": 30,
  "email": "john@example.com"
}

For adding colors, fonts, and styles, you might need to use external tools or libraries, as I mentioned earlier. You could consider outputting the JSON in plain text and then using tools like syntax highlighters or terminal color libraries to enhance the display. The choice of tooling depends on where and how you plan to display the JSON.

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