In a world where capistrano and similar tools issue ssh-commands to setup your application on a dedicated or virtual server, we tend to forget that we sometimes do not have that luxury and freedom.

This is for those who need to fire up an FTP-Client to transfer files to a hosting-service. This is for those, who still create a git-repository to manage their files.

This is for those, who acknowledge the FTPeter in the room where we usually only see SSHans.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "ftpeter"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ftpeter

Basic usage: ftpeter ftp://example.com

The executable accepts three arguments:

• target-host (mandatory)
• directory to switch to on the target-host (/ by default)
• last deployed version (origin/master by default)

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment. Run bundle exec ftpeter to use the gem in this directory, ignoring other installed copies of this gem.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on the Gitlab at https://git.lanpartei.de/kronn/ftpeter

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Copyright (c) 2015 Matthias Viehweger

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