From: Dave Lilley <dglnz2@...>
Date: 2010-09-29T16:20:24+09:00
Subject: Re: new file arrivals into a specific directory / folder

John W Higgins wrote:
> Morning Dave,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Dave Lilley <dglnz2@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> greetings one and all,
>>
>> My need is this.
>>   Get my program to be executed when ever something new arrives into a
>> directory.
>>
> 
> Very straight forward here. Using the rb-notify library (
> http://github.com/nex3/rb-inotify)
> 
>   i = INotify::Notifier.new
> 
>   i.watch('/directory', :close_write) do |ev|
>      puts "#{ev.name.to_s} just added"
>   end
> 
>   i.run
> 
> You could shell out or embed this in your app or whatever else you 
> wanted
> but this will fire the block for every new file placed in the directory.
> 
> John

many thanks for the heads up think this was what I had read or was it in 
a repository and called lib-inotify ruby??

what ever this was what I was looking for.

by the way would cron be a good 2nd?

i.e every X seconds / minutes / hours it spawns/executes my script to to 
check for new files / emails and then proceed to process them?

dave.

cheers,
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