Rails colour highlighting for the Test::Unit/rake command?

When running test/unit using the rake test command from the terminal within a rails 3 project directory, the test result output is not coloured. Hence, it cannot be interpreted at a glance.

Is there a way of getting开发者_JAVA技巧 colourised output for the results, as you can get in rspec?

>rspec --colour

I discovered that redgreen was abandoned years ago, and found this solution which works well and requires no script hacking. The output, however, shows which test is being run in real time. So it is a lot longer than built in test output. It does have nice colors.

http://rubygems.org/gems/turn

In my Gemfile:

group :test do
  gem 'turn'
end

Then run:

$ bundle install
$ rake test

The gem 'turn' works great. The caveat is that it doesn't seem to work with Mocha, due to monkey-patching issues. If you are using Mocha, you can use the redgreen gem. See instructions above in the approved answer for this question.

Yes, you can use the redgreen gem. Include it in your gemfile:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'redgreen'
end

And that's all you need for ruby 1.8. If you're using 1.9, there's a workaround. add the test-unit gem:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'redgreen'
  gem 'test-unit', '1.2.3
end

It's not perfect with 1.9 - test-unit seems to run an empty test suite after every rake task or generator call, which is harmless but annoying.

I am working on Rails 5.1 / minitest and I was also searching for a solution to make the reporting color. None of these test::unit solutions are working, so I googled and saw this solution. Just add the following:

# Gemfile
gem 'minitest-reporters'

# test/test_helper.rb
require "minitest/reporters"
Minitest::Reporters.use!

Github: minitest-reporters