Hi, Thanks. Installing term-ansicolor worked. The console still shows the colors and the text files do not have strange characters.
Brandon > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rspec-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bernie > Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 1:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rspec-users] Problem with colorized output in cygwin on > Vista (was: RSpec Formats with Strange Characters) > > Brandon, > This was a tough one, although I still don't have color on autospec > (only have color when running specs manually ), AND I forgot exactly > how the problem was solved, but hopefully this will get you in the > right direction. > > 1. here are two gems that may help: > gem install term-ansicolor > gem install win32console > and then for some reason I aded the following to my /cygdrive/c/ > Users/<myusername>/irbrc file (I'm not sure if this is necessary for > running specs, but you may want to try it). > require 'win32console' > > 2. finally installing and using the RXVT shell instead may have solved > the problem (again, I compleletely forgot) > You can find it in the "Shells" section of the CYGWIN installer. > Here are the three checks I used: > rxvt: VT102... > rxvt-unicode-X: An improved... > rxvt-unicode-common: An improved.... > > 3. If you're doing a lot of work on IRB, you may want to also install > Wirble and add a few more lines to your irbrc: > require 'wirble' > Wirble.init > Wirble.colorize > > Wellp, hope this at least got you in the right direction...if you find > out how to colorize autospec, could you let me know? > Bernie > > On Apr 5, 12:23 pm, David Chelimsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > Changing the name of this to hopefully catch the eye of other > > Vista/cygwin/rspec users. > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Brandon Olivares > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:rspec-users- > > >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of aslak hellesoy > > >> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 6:50 AM > > >> To: rspec-users > > >> Subject: Re: [rspec-users] RSpec Formats with Strange Characters > > > > >> Please describe your environment. OS, various versions etc. > > > > > Ruby 1.8.7, RSpec 1.2.2, Cygwin on Windows Vista. > > > > Those characters are for coloring the output. I'm running XP in > > Parallels w/ ruby 1.8.7 and cygwin and I get colored output rather > > than seeing those characters. I'm guessing Vista is different :) > > > > Anybody else running Vista that knows how to get this to work? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Brandon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > rspec-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > [email protected]http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec- > users > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
