I have a limited exposure to RoR, and also I have a sort of specific use task I need to do with a small number of people. Essentially, I have a file that is constantly being written to on my computer (OS X), I would like to have something similar to tail -f, except it sends line by line to a web server. And at this point it's mostly numbers as raw data, and I would like to display various statistics live on a webpage that a group of us could get constant updates. I should clarify that I would like everyone to be able to first go to this web server, and through that interface each user can select the file that exists on their personal machines and from there the data is being sent to the server live.
I realize this is a fairly inadequate explanation and I don't even know enough just yet to explain further. So basically, I would really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction so I could figure this out in terms of loosely specific directions I should go. Thanks.