Try ruby_gntp first, use growl when you have some problems with it.
If you like to have Growl notifications on Mac OS X, you can choose between the following:
The difference is how these gems interacts with Growl: ruby_gntp sends network packages via the Growl Notification Transport Protocol and growl executes the growlnotify command.
The benefit of ruby_gntp is that you don't have to download and install the growlnotify command manually, so this is generally the recommended way of getting growl support.
If growl (and/or growlnotify) are working outside of Guard, but are not working when you use rspec via spork, make absolutely sure that the environment variable SPEC_OPTS is not set. If it is, it will take precedence over the arguments spork passes to rspec invaliding the custom formatter requested (which is what is responsible for making the notifications)
Please feel free to add your experience.
Intro
Installation
- System Notifications
- Terminal Colors on Windows
- Add Readline support to Ruby on Mac OS X
- Which Growl library should I use
- Efficient Filesystem Handling
Getting Started
- List of Guard Commands
- Command Line Options for Guard
- List of available Guards
- Guardfile examples
- Run Guard within RubyMine
- Guardfile-DSL / Configuring-Guard
- Configuration Files
- Interacting with Guard
- Guard Signals
Troubleshooting
Advanced use of Guard
Cookbooks
Development
This wiki and the Guard README document contains a lot of information, please take your time and read these instructions carefully.
If you run into any trouble, you may start by understanding how Guard works.
We provide detailed changes for each Guard release.
Be sure to read the CONTRIBUTING guidelines before reporting a new Guard issue or open a pull request.
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