Question

I’ve defined 3 groups in my Guardfile, and I know I can use the -g parameter to run only the given groups.

But since I mostly want to run Guard with two specific groups: Is it possible to run these groups by default, without the parameter?

Answer 1

This is currently not possible with Guard, but some workaround comes to mind:

Create an alias that evaluates only a specific group:


$ alias guard=guard -g default


Now only the group default group is used, but you can overwrite it:


$ guard -g other


You can also split your Guardfile, having your common plugins in it and extract the seldom used into another file, which you can use:


$ guard -G Otherfile


Since I also have the need for a better group management, I’ve planned to extend Guard to allow you to define the default groups in your Guardfile and add/remove more groups from the list of active groups from within the interactor.