Add guard/spork gem to Rails template

[beerlington]

Here's what I've got working so far with Vagrant (Im only working with RSpec at the moment so Cucumber stuff is disabled):

Command

guard start --force-polling --no-interactions

Gemfile

group :test do
  gem 'guard-rspec'
  gem 'guard-spork'
end

Guardfile

guard 'spork', :cucumber => false do
  watch('config/application.rb')
  watch('config/environment.rb')
  watch(%r{^config/environments/.*\.rb$})
  watch(%r{^config/initializers/.*\.rb$})
  watch('Gemfile')
  watch('Gemfile.lock')
  watch('spec/spec_helper.rb') { :rspec }
  watch(%r{features/support/}) { :cucumber }
end

guard 'rspec', :cli => "--drb" do
  watch('spec/spec_helper.rb')                        { "spec" }
  watch('config/routes.rb')                           { "spec/routing" }
  watch('app/controllers/application_controller.rb')  { "spec/controllers" }
  watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})
  watch(%r{^app/(.+)\.rb$})                           { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
  watch(%r{^app/(.*)(\.erb|\.haml)$})                 { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}#{m[2]}_spec.rb" }
  watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb$})                           { |m| "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
end

[beerlington]

You also need to run:

spork --bootstrap

More info at http://railscasts.com/episodes/285-spork?view=asciicast

[alanpeabody]

If guard running on the server is too slow, we could try running guard on the host, but have it execute the tests on the server:

vagrant ssh -c 'cd /vagrant && rspec spec'

[beerlington]

I wonder if we could have spork or spring running on the VM and when we issue your command above it would use that dRb server. that way it would still be fast and we could get immediate feedback.

[alanpeabody]

I would like to re-examine this now that we have NFS working.