Watch, dirt simple mechanism to tell if files have changed

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.