On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:38 PM, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > I develop in a heterogeneous environment. When I am working with Ruby > on Rails on my laptop then I am inside the bash shell of cygwin running > under MS-WinXPpro. > > I also happen to favour a light green on dark green default terminal > display. This renders portions of cucumber's output, under its default > colour scheme, invisible on both Linux and cygwin. So, I have set up a > custom ENV setting in support/env.rb. Thus: > > ENV["CUCUMBER_COLORS"] = > 'passed=white,bold:passed_param=white,bold,underscore' > > When I run rake features this works exactly as I intended under Linux, > but seems to have no effect whatsoever under cygwin. I am working > around this by manually setting the session environment variable and I > could make this solution permanent by altering my .bashrc script. I > nonetheless would like to know why this Ruby setting does not seem to > work in all cases. Is there a special syntax for cygwin/windows? Have > I missed a step and the fact that Linux turns out as expected simply a > coincidence?
Cucumber is already initialized when support/env.rb is loaded. On Windows, cucumber uses win32console to output colors. I cannot comment on cygwin since I'm not a user of the environment. You're mixing cygwin ruby or is native ruby? -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
