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.
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> On 17 Feb 2012, at 13:11, Matthew House wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
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