Replace guard with the much lighter rerun gem #749
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Why
guard
withguard-rspec
is a fine solution but presented a few imperfections:rerun
is a much simpler tool that addresses all of the above.Outstanding Questions, Concerns and Other Notes
I'm not aware of any core/recent contributors using guard, but if anyone is, we can certainly keep it alongside
rerun
.In fact the latter doesn't even need to be in the project Gemfile; there's just a slight advantage to putting such tooling in here to reduce external tooling (eg in a docker container).