and like I say - it's the context switch between vim and terminal and back that kills me!
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Matthew House <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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.
