From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2011-08-10T19:09:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Any simple solution for automatic test running?

On 9 August 2011 22:02, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:

>>
>>
> I've had success with watchr (
> http://mynyml.com/ruby/flexible-continuous-testing) you pass it a glob
> pattern and a block. When any file that matches the pattern gets modified,
> it evaluates the block. So put code to run your test in the block, and the
> root dir in the glob pattern.
>
> At its simplest:
> $ gem install watchr
> $ watchr -e 'watch("./*.rb") { |filename| system "rake test" }'
>

Yes, watchr is quite nice.

The only minor problem is that with multiple overlapping patterns only
the first one is used.

Thanks

Michal