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= Guard
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Guard is a command line tool to easly handle events on files modifications.
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== Features
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- {FSEvent}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents] support on Mac OS X 10.5+ (without RubyCocoa!, {rb-fsevent gem, >= 0.3.5}[https://rubygems.org/gems/rb-fsevent] required)
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- {Inotify}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify] support on Linux ({rb-inotify gem, >= 0.5.1}[https://rubygems.org/gems/rb-inotify] required)
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- Polling for others (help us to support more systems)
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- Super fast change detection (when polling not used)
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- Automatic files modifications detection (even new files are detected)
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- Growl notification ({growlnotify}[http://growl.info/documentation/growlnotify.php] & {growl gem}[https://rubygems.org/gems/growl] required)
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- Libnotify notification ({libnotify gem}[https://rubygems.org/gems/libnotify] required)
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- Tested on Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.7 & 1.9.2
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== Install
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Install the gem:
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gem install guard
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Add it to your Gemfile (inside test group):
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gem 'guard'
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Generate an empty Guardfile with:
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guard init
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Add guard(s) you need (see available guards below)
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=== On Mac OS X
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Install rb-fsevent for {FSEvent}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents] support
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gem install rb-fsevent
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Install growl for Growl notification support
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gem install growl
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And add it to you Gemfile
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gem 'growl'
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=== On Linux
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Install rb-inotify for {inotify}[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify] support
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gem install rb-inotify
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Install libnotify for libonity notification support
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gem install libnotify
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And add it to you Gemfile
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gem 'libnotify'
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== Usage
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Just launch Guard inside your ruby/rails project with:
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guard
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Shell can be cleared after each change with:
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guard -c
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Options list is available with:
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guard help [TASK]
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Signal handlers are used to interact with Guard:
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- Ctrl-C - Quit Guard (call stop guard(s) method before)
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- Ctrl-\ - Call run_all guard(s) method
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- Ctrl-Z - Call reload guard(s) method
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== Available Guards
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- {guard-rspec}[http://github.com/guard/guard-rspec]
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- {guard-test}[http://github.com/guard/guard-test]
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- {guard-minitest}[http://github.com/guard/guard-minitest]
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- {guard-livereload}[http://github.com/guard/guard-livereload]
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- {guard-sass}[http://github.com/guard/guard-sass]
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- {guard-compass}[http://github.com/guard/guard-compass]
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- {guard-shell}[http://github.com/guard/guard-shell]
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- {guard-bundler}[http://github.com/guard/guard-bundler]
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- {guard-passenger}[http://github.com/guard/guard-passenger]
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guard ideas:
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- guard-spork
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- guard-cucumber
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- others ideas?
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=== Add a guard to your Guardfile
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Add it to your Gemfile (inside test group):
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gem '<guard-name>'
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Add guard definition to your Guardfile by running this command:
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guard init <guard-name>
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You are good to go!
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== Create a guard
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Create a new guard is very easy, just create a new gem with this basic structure:
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lib/
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guard/
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guard-name/
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templates/
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Guardfile (needed for guard init <guard-name>)
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guard-name.rb
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lib/guard/guard-name.rb inherit from guard/guard and should overwrite at least one of the five guard methods. Example:
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require 'guard'
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require 'guard/guard'
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module Guard
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class GuardName < Guard
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# ================
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# = Guard method =
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# ================
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# Call once when guard starts
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def start
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true
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end
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# Call with Ctrl-C signal (when Guard quit).
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# This method must return a true value
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# if everything went well or guard will not stop.
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def stop
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true
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end
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# Call with Ctrl-Z signal
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def reload
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true
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end
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# Call with Ctrl-/ signal
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def run_all
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true
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end
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# Call on file(s) modifications
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def run_on_change(paths)
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true
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end
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end
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end
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Looks at available guards code for more concrete example.
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== Guardfile DSL
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Guardfile DSL consists of just two simple methods: guard & watch. Example:
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guard 'rspec', :version => 2 do
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watch('^spec/(.*)_spec.rb')
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watch('^lib/(.*)\.rb') { |m| "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
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watch('^spec/spec_helper.rb') { "spec" }
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watch('^spec/spec_helper.rb') { `say hello` }
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end
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- "guard" method allow to add a guard with an optional options hash
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- "watch" method allow to define which files are supervised per this guard. A optional block can be added to overwrite path sending to run_on_change guard method or launch simple command.
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== TODO
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- Add more specs, help are welcome because I'm not sure about how to test stuff like this :-)
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== Development
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- Source hosted at {GitHub}[http://github.com/guard/guard]
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- Report issues/Questions/Feature requests on {GitHub Issues}[http://github.com/guard/guard/issues]
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Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested. Please create a topic branch for every separate change
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you make.
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== Authors
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{Thibaud Guillaume-Gentil}[http://github.com/thibaudgg] |