New thread for RUBY ftp problems . .

I’m starting a new thread, because, my problem appears even in the
simplest try of RUBY’s ftp.

Here’s a simple attempt to just ftp a file over to one of our UNIX
servers here at my company. It’s left hanging after the last “end” and I
have to kill the shell.

C:\workflows\graphics\OneVision\MPC\indexes\6x9>irb
irb(main):001:0> require ‘net/ftp’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> ftp = Net::FTP.open(‘quark.bna.com’) do |ftp|
irb(main):003:1* ftp.login(‘user’,‘passw’)
irb(main):004:1> ftp.chdir(‘/home/pb4072’)
irb(main):005:1> ftp.putbinaryfile(“lrr095.pdf”)
irb(main):006:1> end

Is RUBY’s ftp reliable? Or, what am I doing wrong??

Thanks.

Peter B. wrote:

I’m starting a new thread, because, my problem appears even in the
simplest try of RUBY’s ftp.

Here’s a simple attempt to just ftp a file over to one of our UNIX
servers here at my company. It’s left hanging after the last “end” and I
have to kill the shell.

C:\workflows\graphics\OneVision\MPC\indexes\6x9>irb
irb(main):001:0> require ‘net/ftp’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> ftp = Net::FTP.open(‘quark.bna.com’) do |ftp|
irb(main):003:1* ftp.login(‘user’,‘passw’)
irb(main):004:1> ftp.chdir(‘/home/pb4072’)
irb(main):005:1> ftp.putbinaryfile(“lrr095.pdf”)
irb(main):006:1> end

Is RUBY’s ftp reliable? Or, what am I doing wrong??

Thanks.
Peter,

I tried this sequence on my system and it worked:

thor:~ wfs$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require ‘net/ftp’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> ftp = Net::FTP.open(‘thor’) do |ftp|
irb(main):003:1* ftp.login(‘user’,‘password’)
irb(main):004:1> ftp.putbinaryfile(‘sorted.txt’,‘sortedXmit.txt’)
irb(main):005:1> end

the file I used is quite small so the code completed quickly. and I
verified that the file was transmited.

I am on Mac OS X 10.4.6 with ruby 1.8.4

Bill

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Peter B. wrote:

=> true
irb(main):002:0> ftp = Net::FTP.open(‘quark.bna.com’) do |ftp|
irb(main):003:1* ftp.login(‘user’,‘passw’)
irb(main):004:1> ftp.chdir(‘/home/pb4072’)
irb(main):005:1> ftp.putbinaryfile(“lrr095.pdf”)
irb(main):006:1> end

Is RUBY’s ftp reliable? Or, what am I doing wrong??

  • you may need passive

  • you may not be logging in

  • either way you will see what’s happening by doing

    ftp.debug_mode = true

here are three commandline scripts i used daily moving tens of thousands
of
files around, usage is obivous, never had an issue with any of them:

harp:~ > ftpls cf0
drwxrwsr-x 3 457 11111 45056 Apr 20 17:43 cf0-0
drwxrwsr-x 2 457 11111 954368 Apr 20 17:42 cf0-1

harp:~ > ftpput a.rb cf0://cf0-0/

  • “/cf0-0/a.rb”

harp:~ > ftpget cf0://cf0-0/a.rb

  • “./a.rb”

note that you can also use ftp://cf0/cf0-0/a.rb syntax and that any path
with a
trailing slash on the command line is interpreted as a directory.

here are the scripts.

 harp:~ > cat ftpls
 #!/dmsp/reference/bin/ruby
 require "net/ftp"
 require "uri"

 def uriparse uri
   unless uri =~ %r/^ftp/
     host, path = uri.split %r|:/+|o
     URI::parse "ftp://#{ host }/#{ path }"
   else
     URI::parse uri
   end
 end

 abort "#{ $0 } uri [uris]+" if ARGV.empty?
 user = ENV["FTP_USER"] || "anonymous"
 password = ENV["FTP_PASS"] || ENV["FTP_PASSWORD"] || "[email protected]"

 while((uri = ARGV.shift))
   uri = uriparse uri
   Net::FTP.open(uri.host) do |ftp|
     ftp.login user, password
     ftp.passive = true
     ftp.list(uri.path || "/"){|path| puts path}
   end
 end



 harp:~ > cat ftpput
 #!/dmsp/reference/bin/ruby
 require "net/ftp"
 require "uri"
 require "socket"
 require "yaml"

 def uriparse uri
   unless uri =~ %r/^ftp/
     host, path = uri.split %r|:/+|o
     URI::parse "ftp://#{ host }/#{ path }"
   else
     URI::parse uri
   end
 end

 abort "#{ $0 } src [srcs]+ dsturi" if ARGV.empty?
 user = ENV["FTP_USER"] || "anonymous"
 password = ENV["FTP_PASS"] || ENV["FTP_PASSWORD"] || "[email protected]"
 debug = ENV["FTP_DEBUG"]
 srcs, uri = ARGV[0..-2], ARGV[-1]

 uri = uriparse uri
 host, hostdest = uri.host, uri.path
 rpaths = []
 hostname, pid = Socket::gethostname, Process::pid

 Net::FTP.open(host) do |ftp|
   ftp.debug_mode = true if debug
   ftp.login user, password
   ftp.passive = true
   ftp.binary = true

   srcs.each do |src|
     dest =
       if hostdest =~ %r|/+\s*$|o or srcs.size > 1
         File::join(hostdest, File::basename(src))
       else
         hostdest
       end
     destdir = File::dirname dest

     destdirs = []
     d = nil
     destdirs.unshift(d) while((d = File::dirname(d || dest)) !~ 

%r|^\s*/+\s*$|o)

     dirname, basename = File::dirname(dest), File::basename(dest)
     tmp = File::join(dirname, ".#{ basename }.#{ hostname }.#{ pid 

}.ftp")

     if debug
       state = <<-eos
       |@src <#{ src }>
       |@host <#{ host }>
       |@dest <#{ dest }>
       |@destdir <#{ destdir }>
       |@destdirs <#{ destdirs.inspect }>
       |@tmp <#{ tmp.inspect }>
       eos
       state.gsub!(%r/^\s*\|/o,'')
       puts state
     end

     destdirs.each{|d| begin; ftp.mkdir d; rescue Net::FTPPermError; 

end}
ftp.putbinaryfile src, tmp
ftp.rename tmp, dest
rpaths << dest
end
end

 y rpaths




 harp:~ > cat ftpget
 #!/dmsp/reference/bin/ruby
 require "net/ftp"
 require "uri"
 require "yaml"

 def uriparse uri
   unless uri =~ %r/^ftp/
     host, path = uri.split %r|:/+|o
     URI::parse "ftp://#{ host }/#{ path }"
   else
     URI::parse uri
   end
 end

 abort "#{ $0 } srcuri [srcuris]+ dst" if ARGV.empty?
 user = ENV["FTP_USER"] || "anonymous"
 password = ENV["FTP_PASS"] || ENV["FTP_PASSWORD"] || "[email protected]"
 debug = ENV["FTP_DEBUG"]

 ARGV << '.' if ARGV.size == 1
 dest = ARGV.pop
 lpaths = []

 while((src = ARGV.shift))
   src = uriparse src
   Net::FTP.open(src.host) do |ftp|
     ftp.debug_mode = true if debug
     ftp.login user, password
     ftp.passive = true
     ftp.binary = true

     paths = []

     if src.path =~ %r|\*$|o
       dir = File::dirname(src.path)
       ftp.list(src.path) do |listing|
         path = listing.split(%r/\s+/o).last
         paths << File::join(dir, path)
       end
     else
       paths << src.path
     end

     paths.each do |path|
       lpath =
         if test ?d, dest
           File::join(dest, File::basename(path))
         else
           dest
         end
       ftp.getbinaryfile path, lpath
       lpaths << lpath
     end
   end
 end

 y lpaths

good luck.

-a