From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2007-02-23T12:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: expect and ruby


On Feb 22, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Robert La Ferla wrote:

> I need to communicate with a sftp server from a Ruby script.   
> What's the best way to do this?  I am looking for something like  
> "expect"  I found a way to spawn and expect using the "pty"  
> standard lib but I didn't see a "send"  I found a rexpect on  
> RubyForge but that looks like it hasn't been maintained in months.   
> What should I be looking at?

	You should check out net/ssh and net/sftp:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/net-sftp/
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/net-ssh/


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