When running the rake test command from the terminal within a rails 3 project directory, the test result output is not coloured. Hence it cannot be interpreted at a glance.
Is there a way of getting colourised output for the results, as you can get in rspec?
>rspec --colour Yes, you can use the redgreen gem. Include it in your gemfile:
group :development, :test do gem 'redgreen' end And that's all you need for ruby 1.8. If you're using 1.9, there's a workaround. add the test-unit gem:
group :development, :test do gem 'redgreen' gem 'test-unit', '1.2.3 end It's not perfect with 1.9 - test-unit seems to run an empty test suite after every rake task or generator call, which is harmless but annoying.
I discovered that redgreen was abandoned years ago, and found this solution which works well and requires no script hacking. The output, however, shows which test is being run in real time. So it is a lot longer than built in test output. It does have nice colors.
In my Gemfile:
group :test do gem 'turn' end Then run:
$ bundle install $ rake test The gem 'turn' works great. The caveat is that it doesn't seem to work with Mocha, due to monkey-patching issues. If you are using Mocha, you can use the redgreen gem. See instructions above in the approved answer for this question.