Cucumber's ANSI colors messing up emacs compilation buffer

Question

When working in Emacs, I use the compile command (F12 by default) to run programs. When I run Cucumber in Emacs, Cucumber spits out ANSI colors that the Emacs compilation m

Answer 1

I improve code so it doesn't pollute M-x grep like commands and more efficient:

(ignore-errors
  (require 'ansi-color)
  (defun my-colorize-compilation-buffer ()
    (when (eq major-mode 'compilation-mode)
      (ansi-color-apply-on-region compilation-filter-start (point-max))))
  (add-hook 'compilation-filter-hook 'my-colorize-compilation-buffer))