watching a directory in ruby

Question

We have an application that needs to process incoming files that are dropped into a directory. I am looking for the best way to do this.

We have been using a loopin

Answer 1

I think https://github.com/nex3/rb-inotify should work for you. An example to use this gem

require 'rb-inotify'
notifier = INotify::Notifier.new
notifier.watch("/tmp", :moved_to, :create) do |event|
    puts "#{event.absolute_name} is now in path /tmp!"
end
notifier.run