Make --no-color in ~/.rspec should project settings

[dolzenko]

E.g. if I have

/home/dolzenko/ $ cat .rspec
--no-color

/home/dolzenko/myproject/ $ cat .rspec
--color

and I run specs for myproject I would expect RSpec not to use colorized output, does that make sense?

[dchelimsky]

It actually works the opposite way quite intentionally. The idea is that you set up general settings in ~/.rspec and override them locally with project-specific settings (in ./.rspec). This is similar to how at least some other command line tools work (e.g. git), though I'm sure you could find others that work the opposite way.

To solve the problem of overriding team preferences on a given project with your personal preferences, we added support for a ./.rspec-local file in rspec-2.12. The intent is that you add it to .gitignore, so it only impacts your machine.

I just added #738 to remind us to document .rspec-local (right now it's only mentioned in the Changelog.

[dolzenko]

David, that's a good stuff, thanks for explanation!