Re-generates fixtures on start about guard-alfred HOT 8 OPEN

You can setup Guard like so:

guard :alfred, :all_on_start => false do
  watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)\.rb$}) { |m| "spec/alfreds/#{m[1]}.rb" }
  watch(%r{^spec/alfreds/(.+)\.rb$})    { |m| "spec/alfreds/#{m[1]}.rb" }
end

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Yes you're right. How about when running all specs, it re-generates fixtures also. Is there a way to not re-generate a fixture when the controller hasn't changed or been saved?

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I think it's impossible to track all files that influence the controller response (Models, Serializers etc.) I think it would be a better solution to stub the method that generates the dynamic value:

Alred.define do
  controller SomeController do
    scenario 'foo' do
      setup do { current_user.stub(:dynamic).and_return(:static)
    end
  end
end

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I suppose. But what about timestamp values, such as created_at and updated_at? These are pretty standard in API responses. To stub those on each request would be a pain.

Could we somehow check if the fixture needs to be re-generated? Such as checking the source file, if it has changed?

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I think it's a good idea to re-render fixtures before running a whole suite. For instance when you change the behavior of String#some_method in lib/core_ext/string.rb this change could influence almost every response in your application.

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Hmm true. You're right about that. A lot of code outside of controllers can alter the response. There's no solution to that.

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Maybe we can implement a prompt for re-rendering all fixtures in the Guard::Alfred#run_all method. This method is invoked when you run the whole suite with guard. Something like 'Do you want to render all fixtures?'. I think it's pretty easy to implement with https://github.com/JEG2/highline.

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An alternative could be to simply add the fixtures folder to your .gitignore. It wouldn't matter if there are fixtures changes.

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