Gazr

Summary

Gazr is a development tool that's purpose is to continue on where Martin Aumont's watchr left off at Ruby 1.9.2. It currently is only slightly modified to work with >= Ruby 1.9.3.

• For use with <= Ruby 1.9.2 just use watchr: gem install watchr

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'gazr'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install gazr

If you're on Linux/BSD and have the rev gem installed, Gazr will detect it and use it automatically. This will make Gazr evented.

gem install rev

You can get the same evented behaviour on OS X by installing ruby-fsevent.

gem install ruby-fsevent

Usage

On the command line,

$ gazr path/to/script.file

will monitor files in the current directory tree, and react to events on those files in accordance with the script.

Scripts

The script contains a set of simple rules that map observed files to an action. Its DSL is a single method: watch(pattern, &action)

watch( 'a regexp pattern matching paths to observe' )  {|match_data_object| command_to_run }

So for example,

watch( 'test/test_.*\.rb' )  {|md| system("ruby #{md[0]}") }

will match any test file and run it whenever it is saved.

Todos

• add default check for ~/.gazrrc or .gazrrc
• add the ablility to have more then one file
  • have a global file that could apply to all project and a local for a specific project (Remains Flexible)

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request