# Inotify - ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inotify-ruby/145157>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 6, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inotify-ruby/145157 "2008-08-06T16:01:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sandor\_SzSSS\_cs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Sandor\_SzSSS\_cs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sandor_SzSSS_cs)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inotify-ruby/145157/1 "2008-08-06T16:01:43Z")

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Hi all!

I just want to have Events on created or modified files and directories  
under a specific directory (recursive) on a Linux system.

According to google there exists three inotify libraries, but their  
states  
bother me a bit.

[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/inotify/](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/inotify/)  
[http://dinhe.net/~aredridel/projects/ruby/ruby-inotify.html](http://dinhe.net/~aredridel/projects/ruby/ruby-inotify.html)  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/rinotify/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rinotify/)

It seems that all projects are not longer maintained, because the last  
changes are on 2007 and one of them on 2005. All three are marked as  
beta  
and I don’t really know what I should do now.  
The oldest is inotify and is written in pure ruby, which I prefer. I  
think I can easily add behaviour that I want to have.

Has anyone used that libs or one of them before?

Any suggestions are welcome.

regards, Sandor  
Szücs

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**Author:** ![Sandor\_SzSSS\_cs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Sandor\_SzSSS\_cs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sandor_SzSSS_cs)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inotify-ruby/145157/2 "2008-08-06T16:09:55Z")

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On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Sandor Szücs wrote:

> Has anyone used that libs or one of them before?

Not updated could mean done, you know.

I’ve a patch waiting to integrate, and a single unsolved issue on  
Ubuntu 7.10.

Anyway. Ruby-inotify is maintained.

Aria S.  
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**Author:** ![Sandor\_SzSSS\_cs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Sandor\_SzSSS\_cs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sandor_SzSSS_cs)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inotify-ruby/145157/3 "2008-08-06T17:31:23Z")

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On 06.08.2008, at 16:07, Aria S. wrote:

> Not updated could mean done, you know.

Yes maybe, but I don’t know and if all have the status “beta” then, I  
should  
ask before I use, or?

> I’ve a patch waiting to integrate, and a single unsolved issue on  
> Ubuntu 7.10.

Ok, but where I can find the status of your project?

Maybe I just have not found the right url:  
[http://dinhe.net/~aredridel/projects/ruby/ruby-inotify.html](http://dinhe.net/~aredridel/projects/ruby/ruby-inotify.html)

> Anyway. Ruby-inotify is maintained.

Nice to know. Thank you for your work!  
It’s just I downloaded ruby-inotify-0.0.2 unpackaged the archive and  
there  
wasn’t a README or CHANGELOG that could point the state of your work  
or when  
the last patch was integrated.

regards, Sandor  
Szücs