NOTE: guard-annotate is currently looking for new maintainers. While I am still trying to accept and stay on top of new Pull Requests, I no longer personally actively use this guard plugin. If you are interested in becoming a maintainer, please contact me via email at cpjolicoeur@gmail.com

Annotate guard runs the annotate gem when needed

• Compatible with Annotate 2.4.x
• Tested on Ruby 1.9.x, 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x

Install the gem:

gem install guard-annotate

Add the gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'guard-annotate'

Add guard definitions to your Guardfile by running:

guard init annotate

Please read the Guard usage docs

guard 'annotate' do
  watch( 'db/schema.rb' )
  # Uncomment the following line if you also want to run annotate anytime
  # a model file changes
  #watch( 'app/models/**/*.rb' )
end

You can disable desktop notifications with (default is notifications are enabled):

guard 'annotate', :notify => false do
  ...
end

You can customize the placement of the annotations with (default is 'before'):

guard 'annotate', :position => 'before|after' do
  ...
end

You can choose to also annotate your routes file with true, false or 'before'/'after' (default is false):

guard 'annotate', :routes => 'before|after' do
  ...
end

You can annotate your tests and fixtures files with (default is false):

guard 'annotate', :tests => true do
  ...
end

You can exclude annotations in factory files with (default is true):

guard 'annotate', :factories => false do
  ...
end

You can exclude annotations in serializers with (default is true):

guard 'annotate', :serializers => false do
  ...
end

You can disable run at start with (default is true):

guard 'annotate', :run_at_start => false do
  ...
end

You can annotate indexes on your models with (default is false):

guard 'annotate', :show_indexes => true do
  ...
end

You can add simple indexes to the column information (default is false):

guard 'annotate', :simple_indexes => true do
  ...
end

You can show foreign keys (default is false):

guard 'annotate', :show_foreign_keys => true do
  ...
end

You can show migration version number in the annotation (default is false):

guard 'annotate', :show_migration => true do
  ...
end

You can annotate in three different formats: :bare, :rdoc and :markdown (default is :bare):

guard 'annotate', :format => :rdoc do
  ...
end

• Source hosed at GitHub
• Issue/Bug/Question/Feature requests via GitHub Issues

Craig P Jolicoeur