adamh-rinotify

Example usage:

rinotify = RInotify.new rinotify.add_watch(ARGV[0], RInotify::MODIFY | RInotify::DELETE_SELF)

has_events = rinotify.wait_for_events(5)
if has_events # iterate through events rinotify.each_event {|revent|

  # check if the event we received was MODIFY or DELETE_SELF
  if revent.check_mask(RInotify::MODIFY)
    puts "file was modified"
  elsif revent.check_mask(RInotify::DELETE_SELF)
    puts "file was deleted"
  end
}

else # no events were received in the number of seconds specified in wait_for_events above puts "Timed out" end

close and clean up

rinotify.close