UPDATE: This approach is no longer necessary as you can pass --colour to your story runner. You can still use the script for plugging in growl support.
If you’re into autotest and redgreen you probably miss your colored test output while running your Rspec Stories.
A standard story output looks like this:

You can pipe it to this simple colorize script and get:

... yellow pending messages, or:

... red failures.
That helps me spot where pendings and failures are when running large stories. PS: this script eats up lines if you’re running the debugger. Feel free to improve it and send back patches to me. PPS: the color stuff has been ripped off from redgreen.
This script plug nicely in growl support if found in your path.
Paolo