Guard tutorial

Guard.md

Guard is CLI tool to handle events on filesystem modifications

Getting Started

Installation

install with gemfiile

group :development do
  gem 'guard'
end

If you using Mac, add following code

  gem 'rb-fsevent'

Guardfile

Guardfile is configuration file for handle FileSystem events. To generate Guardfile, execute following command on project root

bundle exec guard init

To surveillance file, use watch method like this (using RSpec plugin)

guard :rspec do
  watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})
end

Plugins

You can find more than 220 plugins in following URL https://rubygems.org/search?query=guard-

• guard-rspec

  • plugin for run spec test

• guard-jasmine

  • plugin for run jasmine BDD test

• guard-rails

  • plugin for rails restarting

• guard-shell

  • plugin for run shell script

• guard-coffeescript

  • plugin for run coffee command