Using Net::SFTP from within Rails models

Rails
1

Hello –

Is there some trick to using Net::SFTP within a Rails model? I keep
getting the following error and for the life of me I can’t figure it
out. The code works fine outside the model context (i.e. in a ruby
console):

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.3-mswin32/lib/mongrel/debug.rb:121:in
orig_open' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.3-mswin32/lib/mongrel/debug.rb:121:inopen’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-sftp-1.1.0/lib/net/sftp/operations/open.rb:27:in
perform' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-sftp-1.1.0/lib/net/sftp/operations/abstract.rb:64:inexecute’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-sftp-1.1.0/lib/net/sftp/session.rb:253:in
method_missing' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-sftp-1.1.0/lib/net/sftp/session.rb:177:inopen_handle’
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-sftp-1.1.0/lib/net/sftp/session.rb:203:in
`put_file’

The code is just:

Net::SFTP.start(@sftp_server, @sftp_login, @sftp_password) do |sftp|
sftp.put_file self.path, “/home/blah-blah/dir”
end

Cheers,
Jake

2

You didn’t really give us the error…just the stack trace. :slight_smile: Can
you tell us exactly what exception is being thrown?

–Jeremy

On 2/13/07, Jake J. [email protected] wrote:

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.3-mswin32/lib/mongrel/debug.rb:121:in
`put_file’
Jake

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Oops. It’s just:

can’t convert nil into String

But it’s not from any of my stuff being ‘nil’. The trace comes down to
these lines in Net::SFTP::open.rb:

# Performs the operation.
def perform( path, flags=IO::RDONLY, mode=0660 )
  @driver.open( nil, path, flags, mode )
end

I’m guessing it’s that first nil there, but I’m having some trouble
figuring out what’s going on.

Jake

Jeremy McAnally wrote:

You didn’t really give us the error…just the stack trace. :slight_smile: Can
you tell us exactly what exception is being thrown?

–Jeremy

On 2/13/07, Jake J. [email protected] wrote:

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.3-mswin32/lib/mongrel/debug.rb:121:in
`put_file’
Jake

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