How to: turn off ANSI codes in Rails console

Small tip: when you happen to be running Rails in a console that doesn’t understand ANSI codes (those pesky ←[4;36;1m and ←[0;1m that clutter your display), like for example Windows’ cmd, you can turn them off with:

if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mswin32/
  ActiveRecord::Base.colorize_logging = false
end

Put this in config/environments/development.rb and restart script/server.

Took me a while to find it, so I thought I’d post it for posterity :)

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