Is there a ftp crawler in ruby on rails?

[narayana perla]

Hi,

I'm a newbie to ROR. I wanted to write some code which can help me to
list and then index all the paths on a remote server. Is there a ftp
server crawler in ruby?

Thanks,
Narayana

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[Everaldo Gomes]

Hi,

maybe you could use the Dir class:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Dir.html

By the way, I didn't understand very well what you want to do...

Best Regards,
Everaldo

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[narayana perla]

Hi Everaldo,

Thanks for the info. Im trying to make a database of (Name(can be an ID
or filename), Path) of certain directories on several paths residing on
remote servers.

Thanks,
Narayana.

[Scott Ribe]

On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:18 PM, narayana perla wrote:

> Thanks for the info. Im trying to make a database of (Name(can be an ID
> or filename), Path) of certain directories on several paths residing on
> remote servers.

When you do watch out for this: there is no standard for how FTP formats directory listings. Different OSs and different FTP servers use different formats, so you just have to figure them out. It's kind of an ugly problem.

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[Matt Jones]

On Friday, 1 June 2012 17:04:42 UTC-4, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:

Hi,

I'm a newbie to ROR. I wanted to write some code which can help me to
list and then index all the paths on a remote server. Is there a ftp
server crawler in ruby?

Take a look at Net::FTP, in the standard library:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/net/ftp/rdoc/Net/FTP.html

It should do what you're looking for.

--Matt Jones