From: "lrlebron@..." <lrlebron@...>
Date: 2006-12-15T13:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: win 32 utils changenotify

Thanks,

I acutally found out that I had 2 copies of changenotify.so in the ruby
folder. After deleting the older one it is working.

It works but it exits after a file change. Is it possible to
continuously monitor the folder?


thanks

Luis

Daniel Berger wrote:
> lrlebron@gmail.com wrote:
> > Daniel Berger wrote:
> >> lrlebron@gmail.com wrote:
> >>> I just downloaded and installed the win32utils installer. When I try to
> >>> run the sample script provide in changenotify.txt
> >>>
> >>>  require "win32/changenotify"
> >>> include Win32
> >>>
> >>> # Wait for any writes to files in the C:\ drive.
> >>> filter = ChangeNotify::LAST_WRITE
> >>> cn = ChangeNotify.new("C:\\",true,filter)
> >>> cn.wait{ |s|
> >>> puts "Something changed"
> >>> puts "File: " + s.file_name
> >>> puts "Action: " + s.action
> >>>
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> I get the following error.
> >>>
> >>> :/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt/win32/ipc.so: invalid
> >>> attribute name `recursive?' (NameError)
> >>> 	from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> >>> `require'
> >>> 	from cjsample.rb:1
> >>>
> >>> What am I doing wrong?
> >> You'll need to upgrade to 0.4.2.  You can either build from source or
> >> download the .so file directly, rename it to "changenotify.so", and
> >> install it under c:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\win32.
> >>
> >> The .zip file is at
> >> http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/14978/win32-changenotify-0.4.2.zip
> >> The .so file is at
> >> http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/14979/changenotify-0.4.2.so
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Dan
>  >
> > I downloaded the file and renamed it according to your instructions but
> > I am still getting the same error.
>
> Whoops.  Download the latest win32-ipc and build from source or install
> the .so file in the same directory as before.
>
> Source file: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/2757/win32-ipc-0.4.1.zip
>
> Shared object:
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/4586/ipc.so
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan