you're probably not using the OSX standard ruby, which includes rubycocoa by default (and is how FSSM hooks into the native filesystem-watching support). You -can- safely ignore this message... it's just a warning to let you know that the watch functionality is falling back to polling. The polling method is slower and will seriously kill your laptop battery power if you're not attached to a power source because it prevents your disks from spinning down (they're constantly being checked for changes).

if you would, please close this ticket in compass and file it on FSSM (ttilley/fssm) as "dude, your warning messages suck". ;)

LOL ^^ thanks for the advice.

Same issue here.

ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-darwin9.5.0]
Rails 2.3.5
RubyCocoa is installed

If you get this with the MacPorts version of ruby, then port installing rb-cocoa solves the problem.

ditto ... running Ruby from RVM