expect and ruby

[Robert La Ferla]

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?

 

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

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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