My original observation wrt this problem was inaccurate. The same behaviour is evidenced in both my Linux and cygwin environments. Setting the environment variable "CUCUMBER_COLORS" in support/env.rb run does not alter the behaviour of that run.
As one expects, any environment variable set within a process will not persist after that process terminates. I lack the experience in either OS to say whether or not doing so should affect the setting process itself or only those processes spawned by that parent after the setting of the variable. I gathered from the cucumber documentation that the writer expected that setting the environment in env.rb SHOULD have some effect. However, I cannot say if that expectation was valid or not. I am not experiencing any problems with displaying colours or text enhancements (within the limited ANSI palette) in either environment. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
