How to combine autotest and spork in Rails testing?

Question

Autotest increases the speed at which tests run by running only the changed tests.

But I want to push it even further by using spork to preload the Rails environment, so that I will get even faster feedback.

Is this possible?

Autotest : https://github.com/grosser/autotest

Spork : http://github.com/timcharper/spork

Answer 1

ARTICLE1 mikbe has you covered! I would attempt to rephrase it here, but the post does such a great job.

If you happen to be on OSX, there are also instructions to utilize Growl for tray notifications.

ARTICLE2 Ruby Inside also has a walkthrough for Rails 3 and RSpec 2.