Autotest would constantly run my tests even though I hadn’t modified anything. Which made it impossible to actually use. Creating the following in a file called .autotest in my application’s root solved the problem for me. This is on Rails 3 RC, RSpec 2 beta 19 and Cucumber 0.8.5.
Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
at.add_exception(%r{^\./\.git})
at.add_exception(%r{^\./db})
at.add_exception(%r{^\./log})
at.add_exception(%r{^\./tmp})
at.add_exception(%r{^\./rerun\.txt})
at.add_exception(%r{^\./Gemfile\.lock})
end
UPDATE: Updated with Wes' suggestion in the comments.
Great tip! Exactly what I had and the solution I needed.
Thanks!
Not that it makes a huge difference, but shouldn’t those last two be:
at.add_exception(%r{^\./Gemfile\.lock})
(Added a backslash before the dot at the beginning of the file extension.)
Yup, totally right. Both will work but yours is the proper way.