Guard doesn't notice changes on Mac

[Rich Lovelock]

Hi 

I'm trying to use Guard with Guard Compass or Guard Sass on Mac. Have the following Guardfile:

guard 'compass' do

    watch(%r{public/sass/.+\.(sass|scss)})

end

But it just doesn't respond to changed to the SCSS stylesheet. The same config works on Windows but not on Mac. I'm a relative newbie and spent 2 evening searching Google and not sure what else to try.

Please help

Rich

[Rémy Coutable]

Hi,

you could try using guard-shell (https://github.com/guard/guard-shell) to see if the problem is that file modification are not detected or if it's something else.

Also, you should run guard in debug mode: guard --debug
and see what is the output.

Regards,
Rémy

[Rich Lovelock]

Thanks for the advice. So I tried both....

Installed guard-shell and run guard in debug.

Guardfile is:

guard 'compass' do

 watch %r{^sass/(.+\.s[ac]ss)$}

end

guard :shell do

  watch /.*/ do |m|

    m[0] + " has changed."

  end

end

Then still no sign of life using guard-shell. I created a simple test.txt file in the root of the directory Guard is monitoring and edited the file.

Debug doesn't output much. Terminal output:

Last login: Wed Nov 21 23:24:00 on ttys000

unknown-00-26-08-dd-0b-47:~ Rich$ cd /web/guardtest/

unknown-00-26-08-dd-0b-47:guardtest Rich$ guard --debug

23:30:02 - DEBUG - Command execution: emacsclient --eval '1' 2> /dev/null || echo 'N/A'

23:30:02 - INFO - Guard uses TerminalTitle to send notifications.

23:30:02 - INFO - Guard is now watching at '/Web/guardtest'

23:30:02 - DEBUG - Hook :start_begin executed for Guard::Compass

23:30:02 - INFO - Guard::Compass is watching at your stylesheets.

23:30:02 - DEBUG - Hook :start_end executed for Guard::Compass

23:30:02 - DEBUG - Hook :start_begin executed for Guard::Shell

23:30:02 - DEBUG - Hook :start_end executed for Guard::Shell

23:30:02 - DEBUG - Command execution: hash stty

23:30:02 - DEBUG - Command execution: stty -g 2>/dev/null

23:30:02 - DEBUG - Start interactor

[1] guard(main)> 

Any other thoughts?

Rich

[Rémy Coutable]

I think you have to install rb-readline or something like that, please look at the recent closed issues on https://github.com/guard/guard/issues and at the page that speaks about that in the wiki !

Sent from my iPhone

[Rich Lovelock]

Ok, I'll give that a go tonight. Feels like it shouldn't be so difficult!