SFTP

This gem wraps shell sftp to make working with it in Ruby scripts easier.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "sftp",
  git: "https://github.com/mlibrary/sftp",
  tag: "{latest_tag_goes_here}"

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sftp

Usage

Basic configuration:

require "sftp"

SFTP.configure do |config|
  config.user = "your_sftp_user"
  config.host = "your_sftp_host"
  config.key_path = "path/to/your/ssh/key/file"
end

client = SFTP.client

SFTP.client.ls returns an array of path names to files in the SFTP user's directory.

SFTP.client.ls
# returns ["file1.txt,"file2.txt","directory"]

SFTP.client.ls("directory")
#returns ["directory/file3.txt","directory/file4.txt"]

SFTP.client.get(path, destination) downloads the file from path on the SFTP server to the destination path on the local machine.

SFTP.client.get("direcotry/file3.txt", "./")
ls .
"file3.txt"

SFTP.client.get_r(path, destination) downloads everything (files and/or directories) found at path on the SFTP server to the destination path on the local machine.

SFTP.client.ls("directory")
# returns ["file1.txt", "file2.txt"]
SFTP.client.get_r("directory", "./")
ls .
# directory
ls directory
# file1.txt   file2.txt

SFTP.client.rename(from, to) renames a file on the SFTP server.

SFTP.client.ls
# returns ["file1.txt, "file2.txt", "directory"]
SFTP.client.rename("file1.txt, "directory/renamed.txt")
SFT.client.ls
# returns ["file2.txt", "directory"]
SFTP.client.ls("directory")
# returns ["directory/file3.txt", "directory/file4.txt", "directory/renamed.txt"]

SFTP.client.put(path, destination) sends a file from path on the local machine to the destination path on the SFTP server.

ls .
# "file1.txt"
SFTP.client.put("file.txt", "directory")
SFTP.client.ls("directory")
# returns ["file1.txt"]

If a failure occurs when an underlying sftp command is run, an SFTP::Error will be raised.

Development

Clone the repo

git clone git@github.com:mlibrary/sftp.git
cd sftp

run the init.sh script. This will copy a pre-commit hook for git, build the container, and set up ssh keys for development.

./init.sh

start containers

docker compose up -d

The compose.yml has a fileserver service running sftp. The files are in the server/files directory.

To try out the gem you can run:

docker compose run --rm app console
SFTP.client.ls

This will load the gem in irb, and connect you to the sftp service in compose.yml

Troubleshooting

If the the app service can't connect to the sftp service, try restarting by doing:

docker compose down
docker compose up -d

The ssh keys volume mounted in may not have been properly copied to authorized_keys in the fileserver service, and doing this hard restart will get the appropriate ones copied in.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mlibraray/sftp

mlibrary / sftp