Is there a Rake task for FTP?

Question

Hi,

I'm looking for a Rake task to do deployment via FTP.

Does anyone know of any?

Anders

Answer 1

Not that I know of though the Net::SFTP gem is pretty nice, you can write a new rake task pretty easily to do what you would like.

It also depends on what kind of deployment you're doing - if its Rails, have you looked into Capistrano or Vlad the Deployer?

Answer 2

Ok, I decided to do it myself. The code is not very beautiful since it contains a lot of exception handling, but it gets the job done :)

require 'rake'
require 'net/ftp'

def ftp_files(prefixToRemove, sourceFileList, targetDir, hostname, username, password)
  Net::FTP.open(hostname, username, password) do |ftp|
  begin
    puts "Creating dir #{targetDir}" 
    ftp.mkdir targetDir
  rescue 
    puts $!
  end
  sourceFileList.each do |srcFile|    
    if prefixToRemove
      targetFile = srcFile.pathmap(("%{^#{prefixToRemove},#{targetDir}}p")) 
    else
      targetFile = srcFile.pathmap("#{targetDir}%s%p")
    end
    begin
      puts "Creating dir #{targetFile}" if File.directory?(srcFile)
      ftp.mkdir targetFile if File.directory?(srcFile)
    rescue 
      puts $!
    end
    begin
      puts "Copying #{srcFile} -> #{targetFile}" unless File.directory?(srcFile)
      ftp.putbinaryfile(srcFile, targetFile) unless File.directory?(srcFile)
    rescue 
      puts $!
    end
  end
  end
end

task :ftp => [:dist] do
  ftp_files("dist", FileList["dist/**/*"], "remote_dir", 'host.com', 'user', 'pwd')
end