Bump up spork in the Guardfile so that it loads first. Add --color to .rspec.

.rspec

+--color

Guardfile

-guard 'rspec', :version => 2, :cli => "--color" do
+guard 'spork', :wait => 60, :rspec_env => { 'RAILS_ENV' => 'test' } do
+  watch('config/application.rb')
+  watch('config/environment.rb')
+  watch(%r{^config/environments/.+\.rb$})
+  watch(%r{^config/initializers/.+\.rb$})
+  watch('spec/spec_helper.rb')
+end
+
+guard 'rspec', :version => 2, :cli => "--color --drb" do
   watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})
   watch(%r{^app/(.+)\.rb$})                           { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
   watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb$})                           { |m| "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
   watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)_(controller)\.rb$})  { |m| ["spec/routing/#{m[1]}_routing_spec.rb", "spec/controllers/#{m[1]}_#{m[2]}_spec.rb", "spec/requests/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"] }
   watch(%r{^spec/support/(.+)\.rb$})                  { "spec" }
   watch('spec/spec_helper.rb')                        { "spec" }
-  watch('config/routes.rb')                           { "spec/routing" }
-  watch('app/controllers/application_controller.rb')  { "spec/controllers" }
   # Capybara request specs
   watch(%r{^app/views/(.+)/.*\.(erb|haml)$})          { |m| "spec/requests/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
 end
-
-guard 'spork', :wait => 60, :cucumber => false, :rspec_env => { 'RAILS_ENV' => 'test' } do
-  watch('config/application.rb')
-  watch('config/environment.rb')
-  watch(%r{^config/environments/.+\.rb$})
-  watch(%r{^config/initializers/.+\.rb$})
-  watch('spec/spec_helper.rb')
-end

spec/models/refinery/news/item_spec.rb

@@ -88,4 +88,4 @@ module Refinery
       end
     end
   end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end