Yeah, it does surprise me that guard is so slow to react to file changes - I'm on OS X and so it should be hooking into fs-events, I'd expect guard to spin up tests fairly sharpish. Autotest certainly used to…. Maybe there is some sort of configuration that can be made to get over the delay.
-- Tekin Suleyman -- http://tekin.co.uk Twitter http://twitter.com/tekin On 17 Feb 2012, at 13:11, Matthew House wrote: > I guess that depends a lot on your workflow. > > for me being able to run the current spec file with a keyboard > shortcut and see the result instantly in my editor makes the process > flow nicely enough that alt-tabbing to a terminal forces too much of a > context switch overhead. > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Ash Moran <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 17 Feb 2012, at 12:58, Matthew House wrote: >> >>> Guards pretty cool but in my experience it's far too easy to outpace, >>> especially if you're loading rails in all of your specs. >> >> This is true. Guard gives you no real advantage if you have to wait for >> Rails to load, but I've found it absolutely priceless with code that is >> predominantly unit-tested. >> >> Ash >> >> -- >> http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashmoran >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NWRUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Matt House > http://eightbitraptor.com > @eightbitraptor > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
