From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T03:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby fs watcher?

On 10/26/06, Jean-Etienne Durand <etienne.durand@woa.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a script processing some files in a directory: each time there
> is a new file in a given directory, I do something. So, my problem here
> is to know when a new file arrived in the dir.
> What I do now is to try to open the file in exclusive mode and do not
> process the file if it fails, but polling just kills the cpu.
>
> I am wondering if somebody could explain me an elegant notification
> solution?
>

Take a look at Ara's dirwatch solution. Does exactly what you want.

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/dirwatch/

Blessings,
TwP