When running cucumber tests under IronRuby, your output will be full of junk like the following:


Feature: example feature

Scenario: a scenario←[90m     # features\testoutput.feature:3←[0m
←[32mGiven some test setup←[90m  # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:1←[0m←[0m
←[32mWhen I do something←[90m    # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:5←[0m←[0m
←[32mThen something happens←[90m # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:9←[0m←[0m

1 scenario (←[32m1 passed←[0m)
3 steps (←[32m3 passed←[0m)
0m0.160s

This is not great. All those “[32m” things make the output difficult to read and cause (me at least) some serious distraction. Thankfully, it’s easily fixed… if you add the –no-color option when you call the icucumber command, ie:

icucumber --no-color

…the output will change to be:


Feature: example feature

Scenario: a scenario     # features\testoutput.feature:3
Given some test setup  # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:1
When I do something    # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:5
Then something happens # features/step_definitions/output_steps.rb:9

1 scenario (1 passed)
3 steps (3 passed)
0m0.260s

Much better, and easily solved!