Is there a smarter alternative to “watch make”?

Question

I ran into this useful tip that if you\'re working on files a lot and you want them to build automatically you run:

watch make

And it re-runs make every couple s

Answer 1

Twitter Bootstrap uses the watchr ruby gem for this.

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v2.3.2/Makefile

https://github.com/mynyml/watchr

Edit:

After two years the watchr project seems not to be maintained anymore. Please look for another solution among the answers. Personally, if the goal is only to have a better output, i would recommend the answer from wch here