Ugly, garbled output from autotest

rubyonrails-talk
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I am getting this horribly ugly output from autotest when a test fails.

Normal output from 'rake test':

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could those be ansi color codes?

try adding this to the config block in you environment.rb

Rails::Initializer.run do |config| ...   config.active_record.colorize_logging = false end

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That's unit_diff output. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's ugly. If you want to turn it off, try putting this in your .autotest file:

unit_diff = "cat"

~ j.