From: Mark Thomas Date: 2008-10-21T06:13:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Block method to yield stdout? On Oct 20, 2:19 pm, "List.rb" wrote: > In my Task class, I would like to create a block method such as   > 'Task.monitor(mode="stdout")', which would yield the stdout for that   > task from that point forward. -- similar to tail -f Have you seen File::Tail? http://file-tail.rubyforge.org/doc/index.html -- Mark.