Doesn't watch lib folder, only works with spec folder

[marko-avlijas]

I have installed & run bundle exec guard init rspec and it seems Guardfile is set wrong because it doesn't catch changes in my lib folder.

I also get an exception when I save a file in spec folder, even though tests run.

16:37:13 - DEBUG - Guard::RSpec: RSpec command bundle exec rspec -f progress -r /home/marko/.gem/ruby/2.3.1/gems/guard-rspec-4.7.3/lib/guard/rspec_formatter.rb -f Guard::RSpecFormatter --failure-exit-code 2  spec/front_page_spec.rb exited with: 2
16:37:13 - DEBUG - Command execution: notify-send RSpec results 29 examples, 8 failures in 0.0656 seconds -t 3000 -h int:transient:1 -i /home/marko/.gem/ruby/2.3.1/gems/notiffany-0.1.1/images/failed.png -u normal

16:37:13 - DEBUG - Start interactor

I have used default Guardfile

guard :rspec, cmd: "bundle exec rspec" do
  require "guard/rspec/dsl"
  dsl = Guard::RSpec::Dsl.new(self)

  # Feel free to open issues for suggestions and improvements

  # RSpec files
  rspec = dsl.rspec
  watch(rspec.spec_helper) { rspec.spec_dir }
  watch(rspec.spec_support) { rspec.spec_dir }
  watch(rspec.spec_files)

  # Ruby files
  ruby = dsl.ruby
  dsl.watch_spec_files_for(ruby.lib_files)
end

How can I inspect what is rspec.spec_files?

How to make it catch my lib folder?

When I run guard and save file in spec folder I get:

Error: there was a problem executing system command: 
16:47:33 - DEBUG - Interactor was stopped or killed
16:47:33 - DEBUG - Hook :run_on_modifications_begin executed for Guard::RSpec
16:47:33 - DEBUG - Hook :run_on_modifications_end executed for Guard::RSpec
16:47:33 - DEBUG - Start interactor
[1] guard(main)> 

[marko-avlijas]

I finally figured out what this thing was. I had my lib code in two modules and I wanted to test only one so I didn't bother creating module folder in specs.

I've had this:
lib/gallery/file1.rb
lib/gallery/file2.rb
lib/legacy/no_tests1.rb
lib/legacy/no_tests2.rb

spec/file1.rb
spec/file2.rb

I thought guard will figure out matching spec for file if filename is unique.

It got fixed when I moved all my spec files in to spec/lib/gallery/

Please add this to documentation because I lost 2 days and lots of nerves. Stackoverflow was useless as well. All that could have been avoided if documentation mentioned that spec folder structure must match lib folder structure, which is a pretty unique requirement.

Debug output was also very useless. Interactor stopped or got an exception?
Why was it stopped? What was exception message?

Message like this would have saved me 2 days:

Interactor started
Spec for lib/gallery/file1.rb not found (in spec/lib/gallery/file1_spec.rb)
Interactor stopped

[dcrockwell]

It's been about 4 years. Any updates on this? Major gotcha for new guard-rspec users that costs a lot of time.

Nevermind. the -d debug option provides all the info needed.

[dcrockwell]

I solved this with the following guard watch command, which watches for files in folders under lib, then runs the corresponding specs in a folder of the same name:

watch(/^lib\/(.*)\/.*\.rb/) { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}" }