Silence a specific guard plugin?

Question

I´m using guard-yard to automatically run YARD. However the output it has is really annoying and makes it hard to read the RSpec output (which is more interresting).

guard 'yard' do
  watch(%r{app/.+\.rb})
  watch(%r{lib/.+\.rb})
  watch(%r{ext/.+\.c})
end

Q. How do I silence the output of this Guard plugin?

Answer 1

Option 1: You may want to only run Yard if the tests pass:

group :stuff, halt_on_fail: true do
  guard :rspec, cmd: 'bundle exec rspec' do
    # (stuff for guard-rspec template goes here
  end

  guard :yard do
    watch(%r{app/.+\.rb})
    watch(%r{lib/.+\.rb})
    watch(%r{ext/.+\.c})
  end
end

or ...

Option 2: you may prefer to just skip yard when you're focused on RSpec:

guard :rspec, cmd: 'bundle exec rspec' do
  # (stuff for guard-rspec template goes here
end

guard :yard do
  watch(%r{app/.+\.rb})
  watch(%r{lib/.+\.rb})
  watch(%r{ext/.+\.c})
end

and limit guard to just running rspec bundle exec guard -g rspec

Option 3: use the scope command to switch between groups/plugins

You can also use the scope command in the Pry interactor to tell Guard what you're interested in running, e.g.

# tells guard to just run rspec
[1] guard(main)> scope rspec
[2] RSpec guard(main)>

# or just yard
[1] guard(main)> scope yard
[2] Yard guard(main)>

# or everything again
[1] guard(main)> scope default
[2] Default guard(main)>