gistfile1.txt

ruby 1.8.6 (2009-08-04 patchlevel 383) [i386-mingw32]

win32console (1.3.0.beta1)
rspec (1.3.0, 1.2.9)
ZenTest (4.2.1)

# under rake-compiler project:

rake spec

(in C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/rake-compiler)
Cucumber gem is required, please install it. (gem install cucumber)
RCov gem is required, please install it (gem install rcov).

Then colors are displayed.

# using autospec

C:\Users\Luis\Projects\oss\rake-compiler>autospec
loading autotest/rspec
C:\Users\Luis\Tools\Ruby\ruby-1.8.6-p383-i386-mingw32\bin\ruby C:/Users/Luis/.gem/ruby/x86-mingw32/1.8/gems/rspec-1.3.0/bin/spec --autospec C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/rake-compiler/spec/lib/rake/javaextensiontask_spec.rb C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/rake-compiler/spec/lib/rake/extensiontask_spec.rb -O spec/spec.opts

Specs run with colors...

gistfile2.txt

ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-mingw32]

win32console (1.3.0.beta1)
rspec (1.3.0, 1.2.9)
ZenTest (4.2.1)

# rake spec

Runs with colors.

# autospec

C:\Users\Luis\Projects\oss\rake-compiler>autospec
loading autotest/rspec
C:\Users\Luis\Tools\Ruby\ruby-1.9.1-p376-i386-mingw32\bin\ruby C:/Users/Luis/.gem/ruby/x86-mingw32/1.9.1/gems/rspec-1.3.0/bin/spec --autospec C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/rake-compiler/spec/lib/rake/extensiontask_spec.rb C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/rake-compiler/spec/lib/rake/javaextensiontask_spec.rb -O spec/spec.opts

No colors and abort in the middle of the specs.