oh don't get me wrong, guard and fs-events are fast as… it's just that spinning up rails and test dependancies are what takes the time.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Tekin Suleyman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
