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Browser Auto Refresh Script - Ruby Watcher

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Last edited Jul 16, 2014
Created on Jul 16, 2014

This example shows a Ruby script that monitors a project folder for file changes and automatically refreshes matching browser tabs. It watches specified file types like CSS, HTML, and JavaScript using `Dir.glob` to collect files and compares their modification times with `File.stat().mtime`. When a change is detected, it executes an AppleScript via `osascript` to reload tabs in Google Chrome whose URLs contain a keyword. The script runs an infinite loop with a one-second sleep, and also includes commented-out AppleScript support for Safari and Firefox.

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