Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ longtable and colored rules?

[rscottbailey]

What am I doing wrong? The following code compiles cleanly but does not produce the desired result:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{colortbl}

\newcommand\mytoprule{
  \arrayrulecolor{red} % This seems to have no effect :(
  \toprule[4.5pt]
  \arrayrulecolor{black}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{ll}
\caption{Sample Table} \\
\textbf{Column} & \textbf{Column} \\
\mytoprule
\endfirsthead
\bottomrule[2.25pt]
\endlastfoot
 This doesn't work & like it should \\\hline
 I want colored line & above \\\hline
 and black line & below \\
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

My resulting PDF document shows a black rule:

rsbbug.pdf

Output generated from sample LaTeX source

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Experimentation with the actual (much longer) document suggests the \arrayrulecolor command is affecting regular tabular objects, but not longtable objects. I'm stumped.

[mas]

It is working as expected here. Here is how it looks:

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Or is it now what you are expecting?

[rscottbailey]

That's exactly what I was expecting.

I appreciate the sanity check... I guess now I will start comparing the current versions of the packages in question with the ones bundled with RHEL 5 and see what is needed to reproduce your results.

[rscottbailey]

I just wanted to close the loop on this in case it helps somebody else.

RHEL 5 supplies booktabs v1.618. Using booktabs v1.61803 retrieved from CTAN corrected my problem, and colored rules in longtables now work correctly.