Cucumber Recipes

Recipe 23

Get Good Text Output on Windows

Problem

You’re running Cucumber on Windows and want the console output to be green or red based on the pass/fail status of the steps. You also want non-U.S. characters to show up correctly in the output.

Ingredients

• ANSICON, a Windows helper for ANSI colored output^[142]

• Windows’s built-in chcp command for setting the code page^[143]

• The Consolas^[144] or Lucida Console^[145] font (both of which ship with recent Windows versions) for correctly displaying Unicode characters

• Ruby 1.9.x, which handles Unicode better than 1.8.x

Solution

Most command-line environments support cursor movement and text coloring through ANSI escape codes,^[146] sequences of special characters that a program can print as part ...