How do I get colour with Windows command prompt using RSpec in Ruby?

Question

In other o/s RSpec returns nicely coloured results (red, green etc).

However in the windows (Vista) command prompt my text output is just plain old boring white.

Answer 1

Did you specify '--color' in your rake rspec tasks' spec_opts? Something like this..

  Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:your_task_name) do |t|
    t.spec_opts = ["--color"]
    t.spec_files = [] # List of spec files
  end