Ugly, garbled output from autotest

Rails
1

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

Normal output from ‘rake test’:

  1. Failure:
    test_export_format(TaskTest) [./test/unit/task_test.rb:61]:
    <“Michael Alvarez”> expected but was
    .
    –

Same failure, as seen via autotest:

–

  1. Failure:
    test_export_format(TaskTest) [./test/unit/task_test.rb:61]:
    — /var/folders/sv/svC-nvosEl4YtAKb5zULK++++TI/-Tmp-/expect.596.0
    2008-02-15 15:27:00.000000000 -0600
    +++ /var/folders/sv/svC-nvosEl4YtAKb5zULK++++TI/-Tmp-/butwas.596.0
    2008-02-15 15:27:00.000000000 -0600
    @@ -1 +1 @@
    -Michael Alvarez
    +
    –

This is obviously pretty ugly and annoying. Nobody else I know sees
this, yet I see it on both my macs in both OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and this
bug has survived the last two upgrades of the ZenTest gem (currently
3.9.1). I’d love to get this cleaned up. Any suggestions?

2

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

On Feb 15, 1:35 pm, Evan D. [email protected]

3

On Feb 15, 2008 1:35 PM, Evan D. [email protected]
wrote:

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

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.

4

John B. wrote:

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”

This fixed it. Thank you, thank you! Yer a genius!