guard-kemal

A Kemal guard watcher plugin.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'guard-kemal'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Setup your Guardfile with this:

#Guardfile
guard 'kemal', path: 'src', file: 'server.cr' do
  watch('src/server.cr') # watch the main kemal server
  watch(%r{src/.*\.ecr}) # watch your views
end

Once you've updated your Guardfile, you will just run the guard command like normal. Crystal will compile whatever file you specified by the file option (in this case "server.cr"), and this file should be located in your path option (in this case "./src"). Once Crystal compiles this file, then it will boot that file, and watch whatever you have set to watch. If one of these matched files are changed, guard will kill kemal, recompile the file, then reboot.

If you're using Slang for your views, make sure to watch %r{src/.*\.slang}. This would watch any file ending in .slang located in your ./src/whatever/*.slang where whatever could be something like views.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/jwoertink/guard-kemal. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.