How do I enable colour when running RSpec through RStakeout?

Question

When using topfunky's RStakeout, the color in the result of the spec command is lost. This happens even when adding the --color flag.

Answer 1

You have to set the environment variable AUTOTEST to true. Spec detects whether it is being run by a process and disables color if it is (to make the output easier to parse).

To set the environment variable in bash:

export AUTOTEST=true

or in fish:

set -x AUTOTEST true

(the -x exports the variable)

Answer 2

Do you set that in .bashrc file? I did that, but nothing,