Really cool DSL!

[e2]

I wish I saw this earlier.

Did you ever ask to get this included in Guard before? It's a shame it didn't replace the current DSL years ago :(

The Guard "paradigm" is quite tricky to convey properly:

# If things were named better in Guard
action(:some_klass, options) do
  match(pattern) { |match| action_params }
end

Ultimately I think the "dsl magic" hurts more than it helps, because Ruby is quite simple already and a DSL only obscures things.

So I'd personally move slightly towards OOP

action = current_group.create_action(:some_klass, options)
action.run_with(action_param).when(pattern)

Of course the old DSL would still have to be supported forever :(

Anyway, thanks for sharing! It's encouraging to know I'm not the only one with the same ideas ;)

[bartoszkopinski]

Thanks @e2. Would be great to see this implemented. The current syntax makes Guardfiles a bit difficult to get right at first sight. The biggest issues for me were having to deal with regexps, code repetition and some implicit behaviour.

It shouldn't be too difficult - the code here is in fact very basic. (Although I'm not sure if it still works!)

[e2]

At some point I'd like to add this to guard in a way that it can be used as the default:

guard/guard#847

If you happen to create a PR for this sooner, I'll be happy to merge, test and release.

If you prefer, I can add this to the Guard GitHub group of projects and add you there as a maintainer.

(I'd like this to be available by default so that this new syntax can be used in all the examples - and plugins that want to default to this new syntax).

Let me know if you have any conditions/objections and how you'd like to be credited for this.

Thanks!