Why is guard stopping? - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have a rails application that I just threw guard and minitest and my gaurd file is
guard 'minitest', :cli => '--drb --format doc --color' do
# with Minitest::Unit
watch(%r|^test/(.*)\/?test_(.*)\.rb|)
watch(%r|^lib/(.*)([^/]+)\.rb|) { |m| "test/#{m[1]}test_#{m[2]}.rb" }
watch(%r|^test/test_helper\.rb|) { "test" }
# Rails
watch(%r|^app/controllers/(.*)\.rb|) { |m| "test/functional/#{m[1]}_test.rb" }
watch(%r|^app/helpers/(.*)\.rb|) { |m| "test/helpers/#{m[1]}_test.rb" }
watch(%r|^app/models/(.*)\.rb|) { |m| "test/unit/#{m[1]}_test.rb" }
end
but when i run guard i get a command prompt
bundle exec guard
22:14:12 - INFO - Guard uses TerminalTitle to send notifications.
22:14:12 - INFO - Guard is now watching at '/Users/trace/Sites/application'
1.9.3 (main):0 > 2 + 2
=> 4
Why am i getting this prompt. Any ideas... here are some of the gems i am using
UPDATE...
when i run all minitest then the tests run...but why do i have to run that...any ideas

Answer 1

What your seeing is the Guard interactor, which makes use of Pry. Normally the prompt looks a bit different, so I assume you've a ~/.pryrc file with some configuration. With Guard 1.5.3, released yesterday, Guard ignores ~/.pryrc and only evaluates ~/.guardrc for the Pry configuration, so the normal Pry configuration is separated from the Guard Pry interactor.
When you're seeing this prompt, it means that Guard is waiting and has nothing to do. You can now start working and Guard automatically starts testing your app with minitest according to your file modifications and watcher configuration, or you can manually trigger an action.
You can get a list of the available actions with help guard. Some commands are generated depending on your Guard plugins and groups within your Guardfile. Here's an example of one of my projects:
$ bundle exec guard
09:58:14 - INFO - Guard uses GNTP to send notifications.
09:58:14 - INFO - Guard is now watching at '/Users/michi/Repositories/extranett'
09:58:15 - INFO - Guard::Jasmine starts Unicorn test server on port 8888 in development environment.
09:58:17 - INFO - Waiting for Jasmine test runner at http://dnndev.me:8888/jasmine
09:58:23 - INFO - Run all Jasmine suites
09:58:23 - INFO - Run Jasmine suite at http://dnndev.me:8888/jasmine
09:58:41 - INFO - Finished in 8.853 seconds
09:58:41 - INFO - 896 specs, 0 failures
09:58:41 - INFO - Done.
09:58:41 - INFO - Guard::RSpec is running
09:58:41 - INFO - LiveReload 1.6 is waiting for a browser to connect.
[1] guard(main)> help guard
Guard
all Run all plugins.
backend Run all backend
change Trigger a file change.
coffeescript Run all coffeescript
frontend Run all frontend
jasmine Run all jasmine
livereload Run all livereload
notification Toggles the notifications.
pause Toggles the file listener.
reload Reload all plugins.
rspec Run all rspec
show Show all Guard plugins.
[2] guard(main)> exit
09:59:39 - INFO - Guard::Jasmine stops server.
09:59:39 - INFO - Bye bye...