File.open "filename" do |f|
    f.flock LOCK_EX
    ...
end

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:11:19 +0900, Sea&Gull <v / vsu.ru> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Could you please give me a hint how in Ruby
> to open a file with exclusive lock?
> 
> As I know, in perl it is something like this:
> 
> open  F, "filename";
> flock F, 2
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> --
>    s&g
> 
> 


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$stdout.sync = true
"Just another Ruby hacker.".each_byte do |b|
  ('a'..'z').step do|c|print c+"\b";sleep 0.007 end;print b.chr
end; print "\n"