listen 3.2.1 → 3.5.1
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- checksums.yaml +4 -4
- data/CONTRIBUTING.md +2 -2
- data/README.md +220 -70
- data/bin/listen +3 -4
- data/lib/listen.rb +15 -20
- data/lib/listen/adapter.rb +9 -11
- data/lib/listen/adapter/base.rb +22 -34
- data/lib/listen/adapter/bsd.rb +6 -5
- data/lib/listen/adapter/config.rb +3 -4
- data/lib/listen/adapter/darwin.rb +11 -13
- data/lib/listen/adapter/linux.rb +14 -9
- data/lib/listen/adapter/polling.rb +8 -5
- data/lib/listen/adapter/windows.rb +15 -17
- data/lib/listen/backend.rb +2 -0
- data/lib/listen/change.rb +14 -21
- data/lib/listen/cli.rb +6 -6
- data/lib/listen/directory.rb +8 -8
- data/lib/listen/error.rb +10 -0
- data/lib/listen/event/config.rb +9 -24
- data/lib/listen/event/loop.rb +44 -67
- data/lib/listen/event/processor.rb +41 -37
- data/lib/listen/event/queue.rb +12 -13
- data/lib/listen/file.rb +15 -2
- data/lib/listen/fsm.rb +72 -71
- data/lib/listen/listener.rb +26 -23
- data/lib/listen/listener/config.rb +4 -4
- data/lib/listen/logger.rb +24 -20
- data/lib/listen/monotonic_time.rb +27 -0
- data/lib/listen/options.rb +11 -8
- data/lib/listen/queue_optimizer.rb +9 -12
- data/lib/listen/record.rb +30 -31
- data/lib/listen/record/entry.rb +4 -2
- data/lib/listen/record/symlink_detector.rb +10 -8
- data/lib/listen/silencer.rb +12 -8
- data/lib/listen/silencer/controller.rb +2 -0
- data/lib/listen/thread.rb +54 -0
- data/lib/listen/version.rb +3 -1
- metadata +14 -23
- data/lib/listen/internals/thread_pool.rb +0 -29
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If you haven't already, first see [TROUBLESHOOTING](https://github.com/guard/listen/
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If you haven't already, first see [TROUBLESHOOTING](https://github.com/guard/listen/blob/master/README.md#Issues-and-Troubleshooting) for known issues, solutions and workarounds.
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The MOST useful information is debugging output from Listen (`LISTEN_GEM_DEBUGGING=1`) - see [TROUBLESHOOTING](https://github.com/guard/listen/blob/master/README.md#Issues-and-Troubleshooting) for details.
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## IMPORTANT: If you cannot install Listen (e.g. on Travis/CI builds), [a workaround is here](https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Ruby-version-requirements)
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:exclamation: Listen is currently accepting more maintainers. Please [read this](https://github.com/guard/guard/wiki/Maintainers) if you're interested in joining the team.
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# Listen
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[](http://badge.fury.io/rb/listen)
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[](https://codeclimate.com/github/guard/listen)
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* TCP functionality was removed in `listen` [3.0.0](https://github.com/guard/listen/releases/tag/v3.0.0) ([#319](https://github.com/guard/listen/issues/319), [#218](https://github.com/guard/listen/issues/218)). There are plans to extract this feature to separate gems ([#258](https://github.com/guard/listen/issues/258)), until this is finished, you can use by locking the `listen` gem to version `'~> 2.10'`.
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* Some filesystems won't work without polling (VM/Vagrant Shared folders, NFS, Samba, sshfs, etc.).
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## Install
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