AutoReload
Description
Autoreload automatically reloads library files after they have been updated. It is especailly useful when testing stateless services such as web applications.
IMPORTANT! Version 1.0+ has a new API. It also works best under Ruby 1.9 or above. Under Ruby 1.8 or older files are reloaded regardless of whether they actually have changed since the last load. Whereas in Ruby 1.9+, they only reload if the mtime on the file is newer than the previous time.
Resources
Synopsis
Say we have a library foo.rb
in our load path:
def foo
1
end
We can then run the following script, example.rb
:
require 'autoreload'
autoreload(:interval=>2, :verbose=>true) do
require 'foo.rb'
end
loop {
puts foo
sleep 2
}
With that running we can change foo.rb
and the change will take effect in example.rb
within two seconds of being made.
Note, that autoreload only works with required files. It cannot monitor files that are broght in with load. This is because $LOADED_FEATURES is used to track which files are monitored.
Copyrights
Copyright © 2003,2007 Kouichirou Eto
Copyright © 2010 Thomas Sawyer
BSD 2-Clause License
See COPYING.rdoc for more information.