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Via Christopher Petrilli, I see Geoffrey Grosenbach blogging about autotest-rails, with a movie demonstrating it in action. This helps him with developing web-apps using Ruby with Rails. Quote:

Autotest runs continuously and watches to see what files you have edited. Any time you save a file, it will run the corresponding test within a few seconds. If a test fails, you can see the result immediately....

The revolutionary part of this is that it speeds development by helping you develop without needing to open your web browser! I find myself thinking more about the functional issues that need to be solved ...

Check it out.