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diff --git a/guides/source/configuring.md b/guides/source/configuring.md index 28388e4957..ee3f742367 100644 --- a/guides/source/configuring.md +++ b/guides/source/configuring.md @@ -1149,3 +1149,25 @@ Disallow: / To block just specific pages, it's necessary to use a more complex syntax. Learn it on the [official documentation](http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html). + +Evented File System Monitor +--------------------------- + +If the [listen gem](https://github.com/guard/listen) is loaded Rails uses an +evented file system monitor to detect changes when `config.cache_classes` is +false: + +```ruby +group :development do + gem 'listen', '~> 3.0.4' +end +``` + +Otherwise, in every request Rails walks the application tree to check if +anything has changed. + +On Linux and Mac OS X no additional gems are needed, but some are required +[for *BSD](https://github.com/guard/listen#on-bsd) and +[for Windows](https://github.com/guard/listen#on-windows). + +Note that [some setups are unsupported](https://github.com/guard/listen#issues--limitations). |