rspec users - Feb 2008 - Re ducing frequency of autotest file checks

I am using RSpec 1.1.3 with ZenTest-3.9.1 and I wanted to share my set up.

If your cpu is at 100% when autotest is running and the fan noise is getting
too much, don''t worry there''s something you can do.

You can reduce the frequency at which autotest checks for changes on your
file system by adding an initialize hook in your ~/.autotest configuration:

    gedit ~/.autotest


Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
 # Reducing frequency of autotest file checks too 30 seconds. Default is 1s
which makes my laptop very hoooot
 at.sleep = 30

 # Ignore files with suffix
 %w{.svn
    .hg
    .git
    .rhtml
    .png
    .txt
    .sh
    .project
    .rjs
    .rake
    .jpg
    .xml
    .xlst}.each { |exception| at.add_exception(exception) }
end

More information about autotest hooks in David Chelimsky blog.

I also posted this trick to my blog (with some links) at 
http://21croissants.blogspot.com/2008/02/reducing-frequency-of-autotest-file.html
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> You can reduce the frequency at which autotest checks for changes on  
> your
> file system by adding an initialize hook in your ~/.autotest  
> configuration:
If you are running Leopard, you might be interested in a hack a co- 
worker of mine used to tame autotest. He replaced autotest''s polling  
with listening to filesystem events instead with a bit of RubyCocoa  
glue.

Check it out at
http://rails.aizatto.com/2007/11/28/taming-the-autotest-beast-with-fsevents



Regards,
Kamal