Remove warning about ansicon from "rake cucumber"

Question

When you 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?

Answer 1

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