From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T23:35:08+09:00
Subject: Net::FTP.new silently failing in block form

Hi all,

Ruby 1.8.5

I'm hitting some odd behavior with Net::FTP.new.  I'm connecting to a
Win2k3 server (running IIS 6, if that matters).  The directory style is
set to "UNIX", and the ftp server is in passive mode.

I'm trying to "put" a simple text file.  When I use the block form of
FTP.new nothing happens.  No error, but the text file is not ftp'd to
the remote machine.  When I use the non-block form, everything works
fine.

Sampe script:

# This fails
require "net/ftp"
include Net

file = "test.txt"

FTP.new(host){ |ftp|
   ftp.passive = true
   ftp.login(user, pass)
   ftp.chdir(dir)
   ftp.put(file)
}

However, this snippet works just fine:

ftp = FTP.new(host)
ftp.passive = true
ftp.login(user, pass)
ftp.chdir(dir)
ftp.put(file)
ftp.close

Note that the "ftp.passive = true" had no effect one way or another.
Looking at the source code for Net::FTP revealed nothing out of the
ordinary.  I ran the same script from both a Linux machine and a
Windows XP box and got the same behavior, so I don't think it's a line
ending issue.

Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks,

Dan