On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Sandor Szs wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I just want to have Events on created or modified files and  
> directories
> under a specific directory (recursive) on a Linux system.
>
>
> According to google there exists three inotify libraries, but their  tates
> bother me a bit.
>
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/inotify/
> http://dinhe.net/~aredridel/projects/ruby/ruby-inotify.html
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/rinotify/
>
> It seems that all projects are not longer maintained, because the last
> changes are on 2007 and one of them on 2005. All three are marked as  eta
> and I don't really know what I should do now.
> The oldest is inotify and is written in pure ruby, which I prefer. I
> think I can easily add behaviour that I want to have.
>
> Has anyone used that libs or one of them before?
>
>

Not updated could mean done, you know.

I've a patch waiting to integrate, and a single unsolved issue on  
Ubuntu 7.10.

Anyway. Ruby-inotify is maintained.

Aria Stewart
aredridel / nbtsc.org