# (no subject) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 4, 2007, 11:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/119175 "2007-11-04T11:27:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/terry_p)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 11:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/119175/1 "2007-11-04T11:27:58Z")
This is my first thread on this mailing list, so bare with me. I’ve this and it does download TARGET from the FTP server successfully – I also have accessed it via lukeftp, i.e. the ftp client that comes with my FreeBSD and OpenBSD systems here. The problem seems to be that ‘pw = gets’ line and I don’t understand it. I have even tried closing the ftp connection before that and reopening it later but no success. I’m clueless as to why I’m getting what looks to me like an Errno::ENOENT exception that references the ‘PATH’ we Net::FTP#chdir’d to four lines ago. When all it is doing is calling gets. Test run: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\>.\tg.rb “path with spaces” remote\_filename ftpsite username passwd Password: C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Desktop/tg.rb:32:in `gets’: No such fi le or directory - \< the path with spaces \> (Errno::ENOENT) from C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Desktop/tg.rb:32 Test Code: ftp = Net::FTP.new( HOST, USER, PASSWD, ACCT ) ftp.chdir( PATH ) ftp.gettextfile( TARGET ) print( "Password: " ) pw = gets print( “\n” ) if pw # lock it else # un lock it end #ftp.puttextfile( TARGET ) ftp.close puts( ‘Please restart the server for the changes to take effect’ ) end Can any one give me a point in the right direction? TerryP. PS: For any one who is interested in the shotty appearance of the test code. I _do_ build case prototypes as I go along. So I can test things out in small pieces before I begin putting together a ‘complete’ prototype and finally the finished program once I am done with testing 🙂 And oh yes I do plan on checking out what Ruby offers for Unit Testing in the future 😉 ---
**Author:** ![terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/terry_p)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/119175/2 "2007-11-04T11:30:53Z")
Dang it… I forgot to set the subject line, sorry for the idiocy… It is 0530 Sunday here and I’ve yet to sleep since Friday so please forgive the airhead move ^^ TerryP. ---
**Author:** ![terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/terry_p)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/119175/3 "2007-11-04T11:44:54Z")
Terry P. wrote: > I’m clueless as to why I’m getting what looks to me like an Errno::ENOENT > exception that references the ‘PATH’ we Net::FTP#chdir’d to four lines ago. > When all it is doing is calling gets. If you specify a command line parameter, Kernel#gets treats that as a file name and tries to read from that file instead of stdin. If you don’t want that, use STDIN.gets instead of Kernel#gets. HTH, Sebastian ---
**Author:** ![terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/terry_p)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/119175/4 "2007-11-04T12:35:47Z")
On 04.11.2007 11:43, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > Terry P. wrote: > > > I’m clueless as to why I’m getting what looks to me like an Errno::ENOENT > > exception that references the ‘PATH’ we Net::FTP#chdir’d to four lines ago. > > When all it is doing is calling gets. > > If you specify a command line parameter, Kernel#gets treats that as a file > name and tries to read from that file instead of stdin. If you don’t want > that, use STDIN.gets instead of Kernel#gets. I am sorry, but this is plain wrong. [http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005995](http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005995) robert ---
**Author:** ![terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/terry_p)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/119175/5 "2007-11-04T13:09:46Z")
Robert K. wrote: > On 04.11.2007 11:43, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > > > If you specify a command line parameter, Kernel#gets treats that as a > > file name and tries to read from that file instead of stdin. > > I am sorry, but this is plain wrong. > > [module Kernel - RDoc Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005995) I’m sorry, maybe I’m a little slow, but isn’t “Returns (and assigns to $\_) the next line from the list of files in ARGV (or $\*), or from standard input if no files are present on the command line.” basically what I said? Or are you refering to the fact that my phrasing made it sound as if gets only cared about the first command line parameter? ---
**Author:** ![terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/terry_p)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/119175/6 "2007-11-04T15:52:29Z")
On 04.11.2007 13:08, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > no files are present on the command line." basically what I said? > Or are you refering to the fact that my phrasing made it sound as if gets only > cared about the first command line parameter? I read your statement to mean that an argument to gets is treated as a file name. As is obvious now you were referring to the script’s arguments and not gets’s arguments. My apologies. Kind regards robert ---
**Author:** ![terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@terry\_p](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/terry_p)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-subject/119175/7 "2007-11-04T18:14:49Z")
Robert K. wrote: > ICQ: 205544826 Works perfectly! I never realized there was a Kernel#gets as well, only knew about IO#gets. If I did know about it I would’ve just RTFM… Sorry =/ Thanks ! And thanks everyone for not flaming me for forgetting the subject line… TerryP.