watchr doesn't handle ruby-debug well?

[imajes]

what's the right way to handle going into debugger with watchr? is there anything that could be written up to make this clearer?

[ajsharp]

Seems to work fine for me. Here's a simplified watchr file we use:

def run(file)
  if File.exist?(file)
    puts("Running #{file}")
    system("rspec #{file}")
  else
    $stderr.puts "Could not find #{file}"
  end
end

watch("^lib/(.*)\.rb")                        { |m| run("spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb") }

As long as we have ruby-debug loaded up correctly, everything works as expected. We're using watchr 0.7.

[imajes]

So, rspec breaks out into debug as you would expect in the watchr terminal?

What does 'set it up right' entail?

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On Oct 4, 2011, at 19:01, Alex [email protected] wrote:

Seems to work fine for me. Here's a simplified watchr file we use:

def run(file)
 if File.exist?(file)
   puts("Running #{file}")
   system("rspec #{file}")
 else
   $stderr.puts "Could not find #{file}"
 end
end

watch("^lib/(.*)\.rb")                        { |m| run("spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb") }

As long as we have ruby-debug loaded up correctly, everything works as expected. We're using watchr 0.7.

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[ajsharp]

So, rspec breaks out into debug as you would expect in the watchr terminal?

Yep.

What does 'set it up right' entail?

I just mean to make sure to require 'ruby-debug' somewhere either in the spec file or in spec_helper.

What problems are you having with it?

[tomrossi7]

I had a problem with using ruby debugger and it was related to this script: https://gist.github.com/276317. There are variations of this one floating around, but the way it executes the commands won't allow you to drop into a debugger. I changed the run() method to system() and it works great.

Do you all have a recommended watchr script that emulates the functionality of autotest? That may be worth having an official copy!