[Ruby] Tonight's the night

[John Whitley]

I'll be there.  With a bit of code called FileWatcher that allows a  
Ruby process to block awaiting change(s) to any of a specified list  
of files.  Easy as:

# watches for changes to files passed on command line
require 'filewatcher'

watcher = FileWatcher.new ARGV

watcher.wait do |file|
   puts "#{file} changed"
end

Right now it's only got a kqueue() backend (i.e. OS X, BSDs, etc) via  
RubyInline.

TODOs include:
* polling-based fallback implementation
* integration into autotest
* Win32 and Linux support (assuming Linux has a sane+stable file  
change API)
* gemification

Good advice on organizing multi-platform extensions would be  
appreciated... ;-)

-- John


On May 30, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Ryan Davis wrote:

> The projector is here and I'm bringing it to redline. Dunno if we'll
> have a good enough surface to actually SEE anything on... (sheet +
> masking tape maybe?)
>
> We also have some good news to share and maybe a real demo (but don't
> get your hopes up)
>
> Who's gonna be there?
>
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