# Ftp **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 20, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp/156073 "2008-12-20T01:59:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pratstercs)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp/156073/1 "2008-12-20T01:59:41Z")
Hi, I’m a complete novice to Ruby, but I would like to write an FTP server to collect the files from my computer (internet connected) and copy them to my server nightly. My server is a Ubuntu Linux setup with FTP and blah. Please help me with this? ---
**Author:** ![pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pratstercs)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp/156073/2 "2008-12-20T15:04:13Z")
Jeremy H. wrote: > On 2008-12-20, Philip P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > I’m a complete novice to Ruby, but I would like to write an FTP > > server to collect the files from my computer (internet connected) > > and copy them to my server nightly. My server is a Ubuntu Linux > > setup with FTP and blah. Please help me with this? > > Do you need to do any programming at all? The NcFTP client at > [NcFTP Client](http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/) can recursively download directories from > an FTP server to the local machine. I have used it to do that myself. > Is that not enough? Not that I want to put you off Ruby programming, > but it doesn’t seem necessary in this case. > > Regards, > > Jeremy H. I would like to do this as a technical excercise first of all, plus I want it to do specific things at certain times like upload all files in a folder at 9PM every night, etc plus I want it to run from my Ubuntu server. ---
**Author:** ![pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pratstercs)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp/156073/3 "2008-12-20T03:35:35Z")
On 2008-12-20, Philip P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’m a complete novice to Ruby, but I would like to write an FTP > server to collect the files from my computer (internet connected) > and copy them to my server nightly. My server is a Ubuntu Linux > setup with FTP and blah. Please help me with this? Do you need to do any programming at all? The NcFTP client at [NcFTP Client](http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/) can recursively download directories from an FTP server to the local machine. I have used it to do that myself. Is that not enough? Not that I want to put you off Ruby programming, but it doesn’t seem necessary in this case. Regards, Jeremy H. ---
**Author:** ![pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pratstercs)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp/156073/4 "2008-12-22T02:30:30Z")
On 2008-12-20, Philip P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I would like to do this as a technical excercise first of all, plus > I want it to do specific things at certain times like upload all > files in a folder at 9PM every night, etc plus I want it to run from > my Ubuntu server. If you want it to run from your server then I think you’ll have to have some kind of mini-server on your local machine for your Ubuntu box to contact. That could be something standard such as ssh, which would let your server log in and scp files. Or perhaps FTP, and you could script it with Net::FTP. If you really want to do it all yourself you could write a server and client with DRb. That would be interesting! Of course you’d have to figure out the security implications of all this. Regards, Jeremy H. ---
**Author:** ![pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@pratstercs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pratstercs)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 11:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ftp/156073/5 "2008-12-22T11:22:57Z")
> plus I want it to do specific things at certain times like upload all > files in a folder at 9PM every night This is not so complicated. First you should write a simple FTP “client” that connects to your host. This is quite trivial, i.e. x = Net::FTP.new(‘[ftp.members.a1.net](http://ftp.members.a1.net)’) x.login(‘your\_name’,‘your\_password’) Just look at the FTP class in ruby. Once you can upload files, you can let this script run at fixed times. One way would be with cron, or with ruby daemons [http://rubyforge.org/projects/daemons/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/daemons/)