<p>When using topfunky's <a href="http://nubyonrails.com/articles/automation-with-rstakeout" rel="nofollow noreferrer">RStakeout</a>, the color in the result of the <code>spec</code> command is lost. This happens even when adding the <code>--color</code> flag.</p>

You have to set the environment variable
```
AUTOTEST
```
to true. Spec detects whether it is being run by a process and disables color if it is (to make the output easier to parse).
To set the environment variable in bash:
```
```
export AUTOTEST=true
```
```
or in fish:
```
```
set -x AUTOTEST true
```
```
(the -x exports the variable)