Remove warning about ansicon from "rake cucumber"

When 开发者_如何学Cyou run any rake task with cucumber installed on a machine that doesn't have ANSICON installed, you get the following message:

*** WARNING: You must use ANSICON 1.31 or higher (http://adoxa.110mb.com/ansicon) to get coloured output on Windows

When running locally I like using ANSICON, but when used within the build server I don't care about that - and I don't want to see that warning there. Is there a way to get rid of it?

You can actually remove the warning itself. I do not like installing a bunch of garbage just for the sake of having a green word. So, to remove the warning:

1. Locate the Cucumber installation in gems directory (it's in the Ruby installation directory). For me it was: lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\cucumber-1.2.0

2. In the cucumber-1.2.0\lib\cucumber\formatter directory of the Cucumber installation find the file ansicolor.rb

3. Locate the line:

STDERR.puts %{*** WARNING: You must use ANSICON 1.31 or higher (http://adoxa.110mb.com/ansicon) to get coloured output on Windows}

and add # in front of it to comment it out:

# STDERR.puts %{*** WARNING: You must use ANSICON 1.31 or higher (http://adoxa.110mb.com/ansicon) to get coloured output on Windows}

The line number was 14 for my version of Cucumber.

4. Save the file and you're done

1. Download and unzip the file from http://adoxa.altervista.org/ansicon/
2. open cmd and navigate to the unzipped folder
3. Navigate to x64 (if you have a 64 bit machine) otherwise navigate to x86
4. Type ansicon.exe -h and you will get help of this command
5. Execute 'ansicon.exe -i' to install and add ansicon to your Windows
6. Run your cucumber 0.10.0 test and you should get the coloured output result on Windows

Can you add an exception to you spec_helper.rb? Or perhaps try adding a tag which you filter on when using rake?