#!/opt/local/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/sftp'
Net::SFTP.start('hostname.com', 'userid', :password => 'deprecated') do |sftp|
sftp.upload!("/local/directory/output", "/remote/directory/")
end
52 kb of data - copied like that (snap): admirably fast. Some minor problems to work out.
- Authentication bits in plain text make me itch. I need to encrypt those values. This should not be a problem in 2008. This is not a show stopper on my local disk [2] but it needs to happen for a server.
- Error detection.
- The sample above fails if the remote directory exists.
[1] For not good reason except that it's fun .. and I think that Ruby should make an adequate system administration tool. Stuff like this is important if you're going to use it that way.
[2] It should be a problem. Unencrypted anything in 2008 is ungood.
