From: Maciej Tomaka Date: 2008-09-25T19:11:14+09:00 Subject: Net::FTP adding port as initialize/open parameter Hello, This is probably question to Rails Core: Why there is no option to supply port parameter to Net::FTP.new/open ? My suggestion is to add an port parameter to new and open so code below: Net::FTP.new("ftp.host.com","user","pass", nil, ftp_port) Net::FTP.open("ftp.host.com","user","pass", nil, ftp_port) became valid. Code required to do this: require 'net/ftp' class Net::FTP def initialize(host = nil, user = nil, passwd = nil, acct = nil, port = FTP_PORT) super() @binary = true @passive = false @debug_mode = false @resume = false if host connect(host,port) if user login(user, passwd, acct) end end end def self.open(*args) if block_given? ftp = new(*args) begin yield ftp ensure ftp.close end else new(*args) end end end Also open would be written as here, so it accepts the same parameters as new. Best Regards. Maciej -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.