ANSI control codes on Windows

[charlesroper]

The CLI utilities are spitting out ANSI control codes on Windows instead of rendering colours.

http://pastie.org/733822

This is easy to solve by detecting for windows:

http://blog.emptyway.com/2009/11/03/proper-way-to-detect-windows-platform-in-ruby/

Then requiring win32console.

e.g.

require 'rbconfig'
require 'win32console' if RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'] =~ /mswin|mingw/

(note I've used RbConfig::CONFIG rather than Config::CONFIG - this is, apparently, because Config::CONFIG is being remove from Ruby.)

[chriseppstein]

I thought this might happen. thanks for the platform detection tips, But I think this is more about the terminal than the OS. I need to figure out if there's an ansi capable terminal to do this correctly.

In the meantime, you can turn off the colors by adding color_output = false to your configuration.

[charlesroper]

Not sure if this helps at all, but I just tested and it does actually work if you require win32console...

http://i.imgur.com/aK05X.png

[chriseppstein]

Make ANSI color output work on windows. Closed by 38ff0b7.