Using the Spring preloader in develop

Development
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On develop, the Spring preloader is now installed and enabled for
development installations and replaces Spork for running Rails consoles
and tests quickly.

What you need to know:

  1. Running bin/rake test test/unit/example_test.rb, bin/rails c and
    similar commands will automatically start and use Spring. Note the bin/
    prefix!

  2. Spring runs background processes to speed up commands: use spring status to see them and spring stop to stop (i.e. restart) them. They
    should automatically restart when required, but improve config/spring.rb
    if necessary.

Other useful information:

  1. bin/rake test test/unit/example_test.rb will also run all installed
    plugin tests, which will be fixed under ticket #15763.

  2. export DISABLE_SPRING=true if you don't want to use it at all.

  3. Install "direnv" (https://github.com/direnv/direnv/#install), echo PATH_add bin > .envrc in Foreman's dir, and it will automatically add
    ./bin/ to your PATH so you can use rails/rake without the bin/ prefix.
    direnv is in most distros, but Fedora packages are at
    https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/domcleal/direnv/.

  4. https://github.com/rails/spring#readme has lots of useful info.

ยทยทยท -- Dominic Cleal dominic@cleal.org