From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T05:23:47+09:00
Subject: Re: problems ftp'ing with RUBY

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> 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

You mean, I shouldn't have it in quotes, right? Or, should I use 
(#{indexfile})? I have been told in the past to use that #{ 
nomenclature. Now I see why. Thank you!

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