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

You need to install the win32console gem. BTW: which version of RSpec are you using? Every single version of RSpec I have ever used, actually prints out

You must 'gem install win32console' to use colour on Windows

when you try to colorize output.