gem 'wdm' not necessary on Windows anymore..

[ashmaroli]

Relevant Environment Details

• Ruby: ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [i386-mingw32]
• Listen: v3.1.5
• OS: Windows 7

Inventory

• Gemfile

  gem "listen"

• test_dir/listener.rb :

  
  require "listen"
  require "listen/version"

listener = Listen.to('test') do |modified, added, removed| puts Listen::VERSION puts "modified absolute path: #{modified}" puts "added absolute path: #{added}" puts "removed absolute path: #{removed}" end listener.start # not blocking sleep

- `test_dir/test/test.md`

### Test Run
- run `listener`

$ cd test_dir $ bundle exec ruby listener.rb

- change `test_dir/test/test.md`
- add `test_dir/test/test2.md`, `test_dir/test/test3.md`
- delete `test_dir/test/test3.md`

### Outputs

Please add the following to your Gemfile to avoid polling for changes: gem 'wdm', '>= 0.1.0' if Gem.win_platform? 3.1.5 modified absolute path: ["~test/test.md"] added absolute path: [] removed absolute path: []

3.1.5 modified absolute path: [] added absolute path: ["~test/test2.md", "~test/test3.md"] removed absolute path: []

3.1.5 modified absolute path: [] added absolute path: [] removed absolute path: ["~test/test3.md"]

- `Gemfile.lock` : 

GEM specs: ffi (1.9.14-x86-mingw32) listen (3.1.5) rb-fsevent (~> 0.9, >= 0.9.4) rb-inotify (~> 0.9, >= 0.9.7) ruby_dep (~> 1.2) rb-fsevent (0.9.8) rb-inotify (0.9.7) ffi (>= 0.5.0) ruby_dep (1.5.0)

PLATFORMS x86-mingw32

DEPENDENCIES listen

BUNDLED WITH 1.13.6

[ashmaroli]

I do not know about the gem's need on a Windows Subsystem on Linux or with Virtual Machines on Windows ...