Hi, same problem here: autotest doesn't work with or without spork at all. May I ask what was your solution please? Thanks, Zoli
On May 9, 12:21 am, ylluminate <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, I'm going through railstutorial.org and so I apologize if > I'm hitting the wrong group here and would appreciate any appropriate > redirection if necessary. > > I've set up Spork + Autotest as per Michael's instructions > inhttp://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#sec:testing_tools > > Essentially by doing the following (using rvm & I'm on Mac OS X): > $ gem install autotest -v 4.4.6 > $ gem install autotest-rails-pure -v 4.1.2 > $ gem install autotest-fsevent > $ gem install autotest-growl > > My ~/.autotest is as follows: > require 'autotest/growl' > require 'autotest/fsevent' > Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |autotest| > %w{.git .svn .hg .DS_Store ._* vendor .idea}.each {|exception| > autotest.add_exception(exception) } > false > end > > Spork is set up as indicated in Listing 3.13 as per the above link to > railstutorial.org. > > When I get into the actual testing / development I start autotest off > with > If I run `spork& sleep 5 && autotest -vw` (thought I'd try to get some > additional output for debugging), things seem to work. Tests run when > I alter files, however I noticed that when I tried to take the red to > green with adding the appropriate changes to make a test pass that the > test continued to fail until I restarted autotest. > > I thought perhaps spork might be the issue so I took it out of the > equation and still ran into issues with autotest not passing. > > I additionally notice that when I am in the project root folder, if I > just `touch test` it will evoke the autotest via fsevent, however I'll > see that the process becomes "fsevent_sleep" in my terminal process > and will get "No tests matched test", however it will not escape out > of this hang even if I delete the "test" file I touched or whatever. > Autotest must be restarted. > > Can someone help get my horse pointed north here or at least refer me > to perhaps the appropriate group / list to be contacting to hunt this > bugger down? > > Thanks much, > > -George -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

