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Guard does not recognize Sublime Text 3 file changes

Currently, I am testing Sublime Text 3 (ST3) for my Rails projects. But I have an issue with guard.

Guard does not recognize any file changes made with ST3. When I edit and save a file with nano, vi, ... everything works perfect.

I found an old post (2011) describing this behavior http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/41760-atomic-file-saves-to-ensure-file-integrity/

Is there a way to get guard running? Guard with the ST3 package https://github.com/cyphactor/sublime_guard does not work, too.

I use Rails 4, Ruby 2.1, Guard 2.5.1

Solution

  • In your user preferences file (Preferences -> Settings-User), add the following line:

    "atomic_save": false

    For more information on what's going on, check out this question and my answer below. Basically, atomic save can delete and recreate files, and has been known to mess up file watchers like LESS/SASS/SCSS, so it's not surprising that Guard is not working either. Hopefully, turning atomic saving off will solve the problem.