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TailFromSentinel Parses a file, looking for a sentinel line that satisfies a block, and returns all lines from there until the end of the file (including the sentinel itself). This can be handy when you are looking for information in a log file only after a certain condition (eg. a date) has been met. You can either use it on it's own, or subclass it to build your own custom tail-like classes. Standalone: File.open('/var/log/messages', 'r') do |file| tfs=TailFromSentinel::Base.new(file) { |line| line =~ /Dec 20 11:2\d+/ } end tfs.data # => [ 'Dec 20 11:20:00 ...', 'Dec 20 11:21:00 ...', ... ] Subclassed: class TailMyFile < TailFromSentinel::Base DATA_ROOT="/path/to/data/" def initialize(data_file) file=File.open(File.join(DATA_ROOT, data_file), 'r') do |file| super(file, &select_sentinel_criteria(data_file)) end end def select_sentinel_criteria(data_file) case data_file when ''production.log' Proc.new { |line| line =~ /pattern/ } when 'development.log' Proc.new { |line| line =~ /another pattern/ } else raise "Unhandled file: #{data_file}" end end end t=TailMyFile.new('production.log') t.data # => [ 'Started GET "/pattern ...", " Processing ... ", ... ]
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Reads a file, but only returns content once a marker (sentinel) has been found.
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