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Frostburn
Frostburn

Reputation: 31

Simultaneous uploads for files in an folder in Ruby on OSX

Ive seen similar questions asked before but none that are as basic as mine. I know that it is possible to do using Net::FTP and threads. My question is how do you create a thread and pass it a file to upload. Im still very new to the concept of threads.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 184

Answers (1)

Casper
Casper

Reputation: 34328

For OSX you could also look into Automator with Upload to FTP.

However with Ruby something like this could be used as a starting point:

def ftp_send_file(file)
  Net::FTP.open("hostname") do |ftp|
    ftp.login("user", "password")
    ...
    ftp.putbinaryfile(file)
  end
end

8.times { |i|
  puts "Starting upload no. #{i}..."

  # Launch a new thread for file upload
  Thread.new { ftp_send_file("the_big_file_#{i}") }
}

# Main thread waits for all upload threads to finish
(Thread.list - [Thread.current]).each(&:join)

As you can see it's really not that complicated to start a thread. Just read the Thread docs. Many more examples in there.

Upvotes: 1

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