In Git Bash on Windows 7, Colors display as code when running Cucumber or rspec

Question

In Git Bash on Windows 7, I occasionally have something happen that causes the color coding to fail when running cucumber scenarios or rspec specs.

Occasionally, it

Answer 1

After a number of fruitless attempts to get some colors on my Windows 7 bash terminals (msysgit with console2), I stumbled on Jason Karns blog 'ANSI color in Windows Shells'.

All I had to do was unzip ansicon.exe to a permanent folder and run via cmd in that folder:

ansicon.exe -i

All bash logs now have colors instead of the [32m or [0m tags, woo!