Various issues with macosx

[timuckun]

I am using the sample rails script linked to on the wiki and am having some issues.

If I install ruby-fsevent and run it with debug I get this error

[fsevents] event detection error
[fsevents] event detection error
[fsevents] event detection error
[fsevents] event detection error
[fsevents] event detection error
[fsevents] event detection error

if I remove that gem and run it again it works better but not great. It sometimes missed chages and sometimes does not execute the code even though it detects a change. Very peculiar.

Still trying to isolate the last part.

[timuckun]

One thing that seems to happen is that after a while it does not run the test after it detects a change in the test. It works fine for a while and then kind of gives up.

Notice that in the following transcript it is detecting changes but not running the tests

[watchr debug] received :changed event for lib/importer/sap_crm_sale.rb
[watchr debug] received :modified event for test/unit/lib/importer/sap_crm_sale_test.rb
[watchr debug] received :accessed event for test/unit/lib/importer/sap_crm_sale_test.rb
[watchr debug] received :changed event for test/unit/lib/importer/sap_crm_sale_test.rb

[textarcana]

ruby-fsevent does not work for me either (on Lion / 10.7.4)

Is there any reason not to just use the "rev" gem on OSX? It installs fine for me on Lion, and it seems to work correctly if I patch lib/watchr.rb as follows:

--- watchr.rb   2012-08-16 15:05:12.000000000 -0400
+++ /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/watchr-0.7/lib/watchr.rb    2012-08-16 15:03:05.000000000 -0400
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@
           when /darwin|mach|osx|fsevents?/i
             if Watchr::HAVE_FSE
               Watchr::EventHandler::Darwin
+            elsif Watchr::HAVE_REV
+              Watchr::EventHandler::Unix
             else
               Watchr.debug "fsevent not found. `gem install ruby-fsevent` to get evented handler"
               Watchr::EventHandler::Portable