Guard::Copy

Copy guard copies files to one or more locations whenever files are created or modified.

• Tested against Ruby 1.9.3, 2.0.0 and the latest version of JRuby

Please be sure to have Guard installed.

Install the gem:

$ gem install guard-copy

Add guard definition to your Guardfile by running this command:

$ guard init copy

Please read Guard usage doc

Copy guard can copy files from one source directory to one or more target directories identified either explicitly or with wildcards.

guard :copy, :from => 'source', :to => 'target'

guard :copy, :from => 'source', :to => ['t1', 't2']

guard :copy, :from => 'source', :to => 'target*', :glob => :newest

This guard will copy files from the source directory to the newest directory starting with 'target'.

By default, Guard::Copy will copy modified and newly created files from the directory specified by the :from option to that specified by the :to option.

:from         => 'source' # directory to copy files from
:to           => 'target' # directory or glob to copy files to; string or array
:glob         => :newest  # how to handle globs; default: :all
                          #   :newest - copy to only the newest directory
                          #   :all    - copy to all directories
:mkpath       => true     # create directories in target when full target path
                          # does not exist; default: false
:delete       => true     # delete files from target directories; default: false
:verbose      => true     # log all operations as info messages; default: false
:absolute     => true     # allow absolute paths for :to; default: false
:run_at_start => true     # copy all files at startup (does not remove any files)

The paths that files are ultimately copied to are generated by substituting the :from portion of the changed file's path with each of the :to directories. Because of this, any watchers you define will be modified to be relative to the :from directory.

Therefore the following two watcher definitions are equivalent.

guard :copy, :from => 'source', :to => 'target' do
  watch(%r{^source/.+\.js$})
end

guard :copy, :from => 'source', :to => 'target' do
  watch(%r{^.+\.js$})
end

Marc Schwieterman

Copyright (c) 2012 Marc Schwieterman

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