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Discussion on: One of my favorite testing/productivity tools: guard

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Aimeri Baddouh

I can't even think about coding in RoR without guard these days. Our CI/CD pipeline isn't the fastest, so the feedback loop between submitting a PR and receiving the dreaded github warnings that the PR didn't pass all the tests is sometimes over 20 minutes.
Having to go through that for a silly typo, to just get another error almost an hour later kills my soul, but fortunately when I joined the team they had guard setup already so adopting it early on was purely a matter of valuing my own time. I can say with certainty that guard and the rails console are two of my most often used tools any given day.