Pass Watch a Dir.glob friendly path and a block that you'd like to be executed when something changes
Watch.new("**/*") { puts "file added, removed or changed" }
Simplicity.
If you've checked already, there are many implementations of the same kind of code. kicker, watchr and directory_watcher are all pretty awesome, only the code bases are lengthy.
| Library | SLOC |
|:-----------------:|:--------:|
|kicker | 676 |
|directory_watcher | 478 |
|watchr | 268 |
|watch | 27 |
All three of these libraries of course had far different goals than I did for watch. They're all well tested and pretty awesome too. Use them if watch isn't enough for you.
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
- Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
- Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright (c) 2010 Ben Schwarz. See LICENSE for details.