Colourise your jenkins CI output for a Ruby on Rails app

.rspec

# Put this in your .rspec for verbose and coloured output. Don't include this comment.

--colour --format documentation

cucumber.yml

# Add --color and a useful output format to your cucumber options

std_opts = "--format #{ENV['CUCUMBER_FORMAT'] || 'progress'} --color --strict --tags ~@wip"

Gemfile

# Required for coloured Test::Unit output

gem 'turn'
gem 'ansi'

jenkins

1) Get the ANSIcolor plugin for Jenkins.
2) Restart Jenkins
3) Configure your tests to output colour control characters
4) Enable colourization per job in Jenkins

spec_helper.rb

# Pretend that we're outputting to a terminal

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.tty = true
end

test_helper.rb

# The following makes Test::Unit output in colour

require 'turn/autorun'

Turn.config.ansi = true