/autotest-fsevent

Use FSEvent (Mac OS X 10.5 or higher) instead of filesystem polling.

Primary LanguageRuby

Autotest FSEvent ↑

DESCRIPTION: ↑

ZenTest’s autotest relies on filesystem polling to detect modifications in source code files. In other words: The filesytem is constantly being traversed which causes quite some load on both the CPU and the harddrive. This is not healthy for your Mac and if you are working on a portable computer, it will drain your battery in no time. Apple has introduces FSEvent with Mac OS X 10.5 which is a very efficient way to have the operating system monitor file alterations. This gem teaches autotest to use FSEvent and therefore be nice to your Mac.

Unlike other test runners for the Mac, autotest-mac does not replace but extend autotest and does not require RubyCocoa to be installed.

REQUIREMENTS: ↑

  • Mac OS X >= 10.5

  • ZenTest >= 4.0.0

INSTALL: ↑

First install the gem:

sudo gem install autotest-fsevent

Then add the following line *after all other requires* in your ~/.autotest file:

require 'autotest/fsevent'

DEVELOPMENT: ↑

You can install the bleeding edge version as follows:

sudo gem uninstall autotest-fsevent
sudo gem install svoop-autotest-fsevent --source http://gems.github.com

Bleeding-edge gems contains a fourth version digit group (e.g. the .8 in 0.1.5.8) to make sure Github builds the gem whenever new code is committed. If there is no fourth version digit group, the edge version is identical to the stable version from Rubyforge.

Please submit issues on:

forge.bitcetera.com/projects/show/autotest-fsevent

To contribute code, fork the project on Github, add your code and submit a pull request:

github.com/guides/fork-a-project-and-submit-your-modifications

CONTRIBUTIONS: ↑

Thanks to the following folks who have contributed to this project:

  • Harry Vangberg

LICENSE: ↑

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 Sven Schwyn

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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