Re ducing frequency of autotest file checks

Testing RSpec
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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 C. blog.

I also posted this trick to my blog (with some links) at
21 croissants' Blog: Reducing frequency of autotest file checks

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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