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= File::Tail for Ruby
== Description
This is a small ruby library that allows it to "tail" files in Ruby, including
following a file, that still is growing like the unix command 'tail -f' can.
== Download
The latest version of <b>File::Tail</b> (file-tail) can be found at
http://www.ping.de/~flori
Online Documentation should be located at
http://flori.github.com/file-tail
== Installation
To install file-tail via its gem type:
# gem install file-tail
To install from the source repository, just type into the command line as root:
# rake install
== Usage
File::Tail is a module in the File class. A lightweight class interface for
logfiles can be seen under File::Tail::Logfile.
Direct extension of File objects with File::Tail works like that:
File.open(filename) do |log|
log.extend(File::Tail)
log.interval = 10
log.backward(10)
log.tail { |line| puts line }
end
It's also possible to mix File::Tail in your own File classes
(see also File::Tail::Logfile):
class MyFile < File
include File::Tail
end
log = MyFile.new("myfile")
log.interval = 10
log.backward(10)
log.tail { |line| print line }
The forward/backward method returns self, so it's possible to chain
methods together like that:
log.backward(10).tail { |line| puts line }
A command line utility named rtail, that uses File::Tail is provided as well.
== Documentation
To create the documentation of this module, type
$ rake doc
and the API documentation is generated.
In the examples direcotry is a small example of tail and
pager program that use this module. You also may want look
at the end of file/tail.rb for a little example.
== Author
Florian Frank mailto:flori@ping.de
== License
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 as published by
the Free Software Foundation: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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