Guard::Focus

Guard::Focus allows you to automatically run RSpec and Cucumber features in a style one might call "Focus Driven Development".

It replaces guard-rspec & guard-cucumber with a stripped down version that will run with --tag @focus if any examples or scenarios are tagged with focus.

It is currently very early stage with no tests. It has been verfied to work on only one machine & project. As I put it through it's paces on other projects at Hashrocket I hope to improve this situation. If you take it for a spin I'd love to hear any problems/feedback.

Features

Guard::Focus is very minimal. It only has 3 features:

• If a file change results in running a spec/feature without a focus tag, it will run with rspec spec/path_to_file_spec.rb
• If a file change results in running a spec/feature that contains a focus tag it will run with --tag @focus appended.
• When running all guards via enter it will run with the focus tag if any of the specs/features contains a focus tag. If not, the suite will be run normally.

Install

Install gem directly:

$ gem install guard-focus

Or add it to your Gemfile:

group :test, :development do
  gem 'guard-focus'
end

Guardfile

Guard::Focus comes with a Guardfile template you can install with:

$ guard init focus

It gives you focused guards for both rspec & cucumber.

guard 'focus', on: :rspec do
  watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb})
  watch(%r{^app/(.+)\.rb})                           { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
  watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb})                           { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
  watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)_(controller)\.rb})  { |m| "spec/#{m[2]}s/#{m[1]}_#{m[2]}_spec.rb" }
end

guard 'focus', on: :cucumber do
  watch(%r{^features/.+\.feature$})
end

Credits & Thanks

• Veezus Kriest: When I first said "I'd autotest if..." he made it so in his 'testify' watchr config.
• Dave Lyon: For his 'vanguard' implementation using guard-rspec & guard-cucumber.