The issue there is that how do I detect new output and then capture that output as in tail -f <file>?
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----- Original Message ----
From: Kevin Jackson <foamdino@gmail.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:33:19 AM
Subject: Re: ruby tail
Is there a gem or perhaps a method I am not aware of that does the similar function of tail? Or is there a way to use tail in ruby? I have a file that I want to process as new data is appended to the file. This is easy enough using tail and tail has the added advantage that it can follow a file if it is "rolled".
Just call out to tail
def tail(f)
`tail f`
end
or similar - if tail does what you want, use it
Kev
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