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

I had this issue. I've been unable to get ansicon to work, as it crashes when running from cmd.

To fix I added the Win32console gem to my gem file and then ran bundle update.

**As an update: Put the gem in the test group of your gemfile:

    group :test do
      gem 'rails-controller-testing', '1.0.2'
      gem 'minitest-reporters',       '1.1.14'
      gem 'guard',                    '2.13.0'
      gem 'guard-minitest',           '2.4.4'
      gem 'win32console'
    end

This will prevent errors when pushing to heroku

Cheers!