From: wmustard@...
Date: 2005-10-17T00:51:57+09:00
Subject: Re: net::FTP fails me (newbe question)(further)


Bill Mustard wrote:
> I am running ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] on winXp SP2+ and
> using ruby to do a bunch of website formatting maintenance and general
> tidying up.  The last step is to send the changed files to the site.
> All of the files end up truncated! the code bloc I am using is: (names
> and places changed to protect the innocent)
>
> if changed != {}
>    print "Send to web site? [Y,n]"
>    a = $stdin.gets.chomp
>    if a =~ /^y.*/i  || a == ''
>      ftp = Net::FTP.new('website.place')
>      ftp.login('name','password')
>      ftp.chdir('www/fileplace')
>      changed.each_key {|f|
>      	print f
>      	ftp.puttextfile(f)
>      	puts ": " + ftp.size(f).to_s + " of #{changed[f]}"
>      }
>      ftp.close
>    end
> end
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bill Mustard

I changed "ftp.puttextfile(f)" to "ftp.putbinaryfile(f,f,1024)"
even though they are text files, and the transfer works!

Thanks
Bill