Change Mac OS X Terminal.app background color in a shell script using AppleScript.

prod.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# NOTE: this requires actually setting up a terminal profile called "Prod".

# TODO i have no idea if this is good enough, sorry.
def escape_for_applescript(string)
  string.gsub("\"", "\\\"")
end

def execute_applescript(applescript)
  puts `osascript -e \"#{escape_for_applescript(applescript)}\"`
end

execute_applescript <<-AS
  tell application "Terminal"
  set current settings of window 1 to settings set "Prod"
  end tell
AS