Autotest delays a little bit with fsevent about autotest

[grosser]

first I'd say go pick another testing tool, autotest is pretty old and pretty bad,

I think you might be able to just do a self.sleep = 0 in your .autotest, since the extensions are loaded in the autotest object
https://github.com/grosser/autotest/blob/master/lib/autotest.rb#L307

[squarism]

I usually use guard but one project I'm on uses Minitest which won't work with spork and guard. Autotest works and the above fix does work. self.sleep=0 doesn't work within the reopened .autotest class nor outside it.

I'll just post my .autotest file in case it helps someone. It works, I just hate how hacky it is. I wish I could get to the instance of autotest better or catch the init in a Rails initializer?

require 'autotest/fsevent'

class Autotest
  # does not work
  # self.sleep = 0

  # run tests over drb server (spork)
  def make_test_cmd files_to_test
    if files_to_test.empty?
      "" # no tests to run
    else
      "testdrb #{files_to_test.keys.join(' ')}"
    end
  end
end

# tighten up the time before the test is run
ObjectSpace.each_object(Autotest).first.sleep = 0

# does not work
#self.sleep = 0

[grosser]

Looks like load has no access to the current scope (not event instance vars)
it's a weird spot since autotest is already initialized + you do not get access to the instance.
A way would be to have Autotest.sleep and when sleeping do sleep sleep || self.class.sleep so you could overwrite it.
I'd merge a pull for this if you care enough to build it :)

[squarism]

I'll work on it then. :)

Issue #34 pull request opened for this.

[squarism]

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