From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T09:53:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby script to Module/Class refactor

"James b. Byrne" <ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca> writes:
> Many thanks.  I have clue where to begin now.  I will try and redo this 
> more or less along the lines you recommend and post the result back 
> here.  Just to clarify one point, the HP3000 drops off the files onto 
> the host that is running the Ruby script.  There is no service running 
> on the HP3000 that will respond to a file transfer request, although, as 
> you point out, that does not preclude a scenario where the drop machine 
> is not the script runner.

Exactly.  HP3000#get_file might in that case look something like:

class HP3000
   def initialize(hostname)
       @drop_dir = "/path/to/dropdir/#{hostname}"
   end  

   def get_file(filename, destination)
       system("cp #{@dropdir}/#{filename} #{destination}")
   end
end

Or some such silliness-- and yes, there are more Rubyish ways to do
that, but, like Perl, one of the things I like about Ruby is that
you can do more or less in pure Ruby, depending on your taste and your
application.

-=Eric