In the course of time, I found myself wanting to run RSpec automatically in response to file changes. I found a nice tool called fswatch to handle the file events, but I wanted a "smarter" pipeline. Following the Unix philosophy, I wrote a few tiny command line tools which I've provided the source to.
specname— maps a file in a rails project to its corresponding spec file.debounce— makes sure multiple rapid saves don't trigger as many RSpec runs.throttle— could be used to collect multiple file changes into one RSpec run, but I haven't figured that last part out yet.
The core functions are fully generic and have no dependencies on anything but Foundation, so they could be easily incorporated into a larger project if there's a use for them.