Guard::Brakeman

Guard::Brakeman allows you to automatically run Brakeman tests when files are modified.

Use guard-brakeman >= 0.4.0 for brakeman >= 1.5.3

And use < 0.4.0 for brakeman < 1.5.3

Install

The simplest way to install Guard is to use Bundler. Please make sure to have Guard installed before continue.

Add Guard::Brakeman to your Gemfile:

group :development do
  gem 'guard-brakeman'
end

Add the default Guard::Brakeman template to your Guardfile by running:

$ guard init brakeman

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Usage

Please read the Guard usage documentation.

Guardfile

Guard::Brakeman can be adapted to all kind of projects and comes with a default template that looks like this:

guard 'brakeman' do
  watch(%r{^app/.+\.(erb|haml|rhtml|rb)$})
  watch(%r{^config/.+\.rb$})
  watch(%r{^lib/.+\.rb$})
  watch('Gemfile')
end

Please read the Guard documentation for more information about the Guardfile DSL.

List of available options

:quiet          => false    # set the "quiet" option in brakeman (only results will be printed)
:output_files   => %w(donkey.html) # write the results to the specified files
:notifications  => false    # display Growl notifications, defaults to true
:run_on_start   => true     # run all checks on startup, defaults to false
:min_confidence => 3        # only alert on warnings above a threshold, defaults to 1
:chatty         => true     # notify on ALL changes.  Defaults to false, only new or fixed warnings trigger a Growl

Brakeman configuration

Issues

You can report issues and feature requests to GitHub Issues. Try to figure out where the issue belongs to: Is it an issue with Guard itself or with Guard::Brakeman? Please don't ask the question in the issue tracker, instead join us in our Google group or on #guard (irc.freenode.net).

When you file an issue, please try to follow to these simple rules if applicable:

• Make sure you run Guard with bundle exec first.
• Add debug information to the issue by running Guard with the --debug option.
• Add your Guardfile and Gemfile to the issue.
• Make sure that the issue is reproducible with your description.

Development

• Source hosted at GitHub.

Pull requests are very welcome! Please try to follow these simple rules if applicable:

• Please create a topic branch for every separate change you make.
• Make sure your patches are well tested.
• Update the README.
• Update the CHANGELOG for noteworthy changes.
• Please do not change the version number.

For questions please join us in our Google group or on #guard (irc.freenode.net).

Contributors

• Neil Matatall
• Justin Collins

Acknowledgment

The Guard Team for giving us such a nice pice of software that is so easy to extend, one has to make a plugin for it!

All the authors of the numerous Guards available for making the Guard ecosystem so much growing and comprehensive.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010 - 2011 Neil Matatall

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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