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Asked: 2026-06-04T01:14:27+00:00

When you run any rake task with cucumber installed on a machine that doesn’t

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When you run any rake task with cucumber installed on a machine that doesn’t have ANSICON installed, you get the following message:

*** WARNING: You must use ANSICON 1.31 or higher (http://adoxa.110mb.com/ansicon) to get coloured output on Windows

When running locally I like using ANSICON, but when used within the build server I don’t care about that – and I don’t want to see that warning there. Is there a way to get rid of it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can actually remove the warning itself. I do not like installing a bunch of garbage just for the sake of having a green word. So, to remove the warning:

    1. Locate the Cucumber installation in gems directory (it’s in the Ruby installation directory). For me it was: lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\cucumber-1.2.0

    2. In the cucumber-1.2.0\lib\cucumber\formatter directory of the Cucumber installation find the file ansicolor.rb

    3. Locate the line:

    STDERR.puts %{*** WARNING: You must use ANSICON 1.31 or higher (http://adoxa.110mb.com/ansicon) to get coloured output on Windows}

    and add # in front of it to comment it out:

    # STDERR.puts %{*** WARNING: You must use ANSICON 1.31 or higher (http://adoxa.110mb.com/ansicon) to get coloured output on Windows}

    The line number was 14 for my version of Cucumber.

    4. Save the file and you’re done

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