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Why manually run your tests, when the computer can do it for you! Autotest is a great tool to speed up test-driven development with Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Autotest makes your coding session even more productive as it automatically runs a subset of your test suite each time you change a file. Autotest is smart -- it figures out which subset to run based on the files you've changed. Think of it as Continuous Testing.

Autotest source code is well-documented (rdoc) but finding a high level overview online is a little more challenging. This article will get you up and running in no time, so that you may concentrate on writing code. Let's get started!