We have a project where some Engineers are running configurations that do not support inotify, which causes an error when this gem is loaded. We still want these Engineers to be able to use Spring in polling mode. We tried setting require: false in the Gemfile but Spring loads the gem anyway.
This change introduces a new env var DISABLE_SPRING_WATCHER_LISTEN which, along the lines of DISABLE_SPRING, disables the functionality in this gem.
There are probably a few ways to solve this problem but I wanted to submit this for your consideration. Feedback welcome!
We have a project where some Engineers are running configurations that do not support
inotify, which causes an error when this gem is loaded. We still want these Engineers to be able to use Spring in polling mode. We tried settingrequire: falsein theGemfilebut Spring loads the gem anyway.This change introduces a new env var
DISABLE_SPRING_WATCHER_LISTENwhich, along the lines ofDISABLE_SPRING, disables the functionality in this gem.There are probably a few ways to solve this problem but I wanted to submit this for your consideration. Feedback welcome!