From: ChrisKaelin <ck1@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T02:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: FTPS - How to connect with Ruby?

On 20 Mrz., 17:42, "Jan Vesel�" <janvesely....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to Ruby and have the first problem I can't solve myself
> after a lot of googling - connecting to a FTPS server (FTP AUTH TLS/
> SSL).
>
> - there's some library called chilkat, but it's not free (for this
> little script it's really too expensive to solve it that way)
> - ftpfxp library is targeted on fxp transfers, but it connects ok -
> but it doesn't seem like a good library for normal ftp-related work
> - the standard ftp library doesn't look like it has some support for
> firewall/proxy to get there a program like TLSWrap between client and
> server and solve the problem
> - I found some curl library in prealfa state that could possibly help
> me somehow - but it looks like the last solution when everything else
> fails (prealfa, weird installation)
>
> Could you please give me a hint?


Try net/sftp Module. With that I made a backup script on window$ using
scp and/or sftp, because rsync is not available on the server, I have
to back up.

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

Here's an example, how it's working:

arr = Array.new
Net::SFTP.start(@host, @user, @pass) do |sftp|
  handle = sftp.opendir(dir)
  items = sftp.readdir(handle)
  items.each do |item|
    arr.push(item)
  end
  sftp.close_handle(handle)
end
return arr

For more infos you should check the project's page.

Greetings

Chris