# Re: ruby tail

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-tail/86451>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 22, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-tail/86451 "2007-02-22T11:20:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phy\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a587f6/32.png) [@Phy\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phy_P)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-tail/86451/1 "2007-02-22T11:20:09Z")

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Wow thats really cool!!!

----- Original Message ----  
From: Alex Y. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
To: ruby-talk ML [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:59:39 AM  
Subject: Re: ruby tail

Kevin J. wrote:

> offer a solution - perhaps using threads or something  
> Use IO.popen:

IO.popen(‘tail -f sim.out’){|f|  
while line = f.gets  
p line  
end  
}

–  
Alex