From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T04:12:36+09:00
Subject: Re: problems ftp'ing with RUBY

On 5/3/06, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
>
> require 'net/ftp'
> indexfiles = Dir.glob("*.pdf")
> indexfiles.each do |indexfile|
>   ftp = Net::FTP.open('mpc.bna.com') do |ftp|
>   ftp.login('username','password')
>   ftp.chdir('/data/bnaindex')
>   ftp.putbinaryfile("indexfile")

I suppose no one has pointed out that the above line is probably a
bug. Here you are telling the FTP library to put a binary file called
indexfile, not using the contents of the variable indexfile. Therein
lies the problem, as far as I can see.

Regards,
Ryan