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

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