From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2006-11-09T02:39:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SSH Data Stream Problem

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Andrew Stewart wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to copy a file from my local machine to a remote machine using

what platform(s)?
> Net::SSH.  The copy fails part way leaving the file partly written on the
> remote machine.  The size of the remote file portion is always 131072 bytes
> (128 kB).  My local file is ~1.2MB.  This leads me to suspect that the data
        [...]
> And here's the code (based on Ruby Cookbook recipe 14.11):
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'net/ssh'
> 
> host = 'xyz.com'
> user = 'me'
> upload_dir = '/path/to/remote/directory/'
> my_file = '/path/to/my/file.zip'
> 
> def copy_file(session, source_path, destination_path=nil)
>  destination_path ||= source_path
>  cmd = %{cat > "#{destination_path.gsub('"', '\"')}"}
>  session.process.popen3 cmd do |stdin, stdout, stderr|
>    print "Copying #{source_path} to #{destination_path}..."
>    open(source_path) { |f| stdin.write f.read }

     # I suspect this should be:
     open(source_path, 'rb') { |f| stdin.write f.read }
     # so that that ctrl-Z isn't treated as EOF, or something ghastly
     # of that sort.
>    puts "done."
>  end
> end
> 
> Net::SSH.start(host, :username => user) do |session|
>  copy_file session, my_file, my_file.sub(/^.*\//, "#{upload_dir}")
> end

        Hugh