Guarfile for python-livereload. Enable livereload when web server is available.

Guardfile

#!/usr/bin/env python
from livereload.task import Task


def check_web_server():
    """
    Enable livereload when web server is avaiable.
    """
    import httplib
    import time

    host = 'localhost'
    port = '8000'
    path = '/'
    status = False
    while (not status):
        try:
            print 'Check connection to %s:%s%s' % (host, port, path)
            conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host, port)
            conn.request('HEAD', path)
            status = conn.getresponse().status
        except StandardError:
            status = False
            time.sleep(1)
    return True


Task.add('.', check_web_server)