Ruby RSpec : No color on output with a Mac

Question

Developing with my first Mac and I noticed that my Rspec output isn't colorized in my terminal even though I'm using the '-c' flag in the command: bundle exec rspec -c -fd. Any ideas?

dup? http://stackoverflow.com/q/1819614/119790 – Ian Vaughan May 21 '13 at 10:33 — Ian Vaughan, May 21 '13 at 10:33

score 57 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '12 at 17:17

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Add the following contents to a .rspec file to your project dir root.

--color

answered Feb 13 '12 at 17:17

Jens Tinfors

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Or, place the .rspec file in your home directory to apply the settings for all projects. – Jimothy Mar 07 '13 at 13:48

score 15 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 01:15

If you're coming here from Google recently, you may notice that Allen Chun's answer gives a NoMethodError with .color_enabled when using RSpec 3.0 or higher. .color_enabled was removed in 3.0: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/blob/master/Changelog.md#300rc1--2014-05-18

Just change .color_enabled to .color in spec_helper.rb:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  # Use color in STDOUT
  config.color = true

  # other config options here...    

end

This worked for me with Ruby 2.1.2p95 on OS X Mavericks 10.9.4.

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 21 '13 at 08:19

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You can also put the config on the spec_helper.rb if you don't want to attach --color every time you run rspec.

RSpec.configure do |config|
 # Use color in STDOUT
   config.color_enabled = true

 # Use color not only in STDOUT but also in pagers and files
   config.tty = true

 # Use the specified formatter
   config.formatter = :documentation # :progress, :html, :textmate
end

answered Nov 21 '13 at 08:19

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`config.color_enabled = true` didn't work for me, but `config.color = true` did. – Matt Waldron Jul 14 '17 at 19:40

Ruby RSpec : No color on output with a Mac

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