As I understand it, plugins are not reloaded in Rails with each request in development mode. Which makes sense, as generally you add plugins to your app and it\'s the app yo
With https://github.com/ranmocy/guard-rails, it's super easy:
# Gemfile.local gem 'guard-rails' $ bundle $ guard init rails # Guardfile: guard 'rails' do watch('Gemfile.lock') watch(%r{^(config|plugins)/.*}) end $ bundle exec guard