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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Parker
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Rails] FileSystemWatcher - has any one done this?FreeBSD has kqueue, and Windows has a built-in feature as well. I’ve
done several polling routines using the opendir() syscall, and much
prefer kqueue. Webservers have well-written internal methods, but I
don’t know if they expose an API.But the question remains “how to do it in a platform-independant way
from Ruby”. Polling will work, but if you want low-latency
notification, you’ll burn cpu.
There’s Ara Howard’s ‘dirwatch’ package on the RAA:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/dirwatch/
I’ve never used it myself, however.
HTH,
Dan
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