autotest 4.4.6, zentest 4.4.1 not working in rails app for controller file (but works for spec file)

I know there are a few questions already regarding autotest and zentest but my problem seems a little different. In my case, if I run with

autotest

nothing happens other than a status message saying "Waiting since..." with no tests being run. If I run it with

autotest -s rspec2

Then all my tests run. If I change a spec file autotest knows and re-runs my tests. But if I change a controller file then I just get my "Waiting since..." message updated but no tests are run.

Any ideas what's going on? Or can someone please poin开发者_如何学编程t me where I can look into this further?

.autotest (i actually don't know if # is how to comment out a section!)

require 'autotest/fsevent'
#require 'autotest/restart'
require 'autotest/growl'
require 'autotest/timestamp'

I never use "sudo gem install" because I am using rvm. So only "gem install X"

Your problem looks very much similar to this autotest on ubuntu does nothing

The only gem you need is autotest, so deinstall the rest. Optionally, you can use autotest-fsevent and autotest-growl on a mac.

Make sure there is an autotest/discover.rb with the following contents:

Autotest.add_discovery { "rails" }
Autotest.add_discovery { "rspec2" }

It should've been generated by rails generate rspec:install

If you have additional directories in your app directory, you add them to autotest by making a .autotest file, containing something like:

Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
  at.add_mapping(%r%^spec/(.*)_spec\.rb$%) { |filename, _| filename }
  at.add_mapping(%r%^app/(.*)\.rb$%) { |_, m| ["spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"] }
end

(Answer based on Rails3 and RSpec2)