Net::SCP is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SCP protocol. This operates over SSH (and requires the Net::SSH library), and allows files and directory trees to copied to and from a remote server. * Transfer files or entire directory trees to or from a remote host via SCP * Can preserve file attributes across transfers * Can download files in-memory, or direct-to-disk * Support for SCP URI's, and OpenURI WWW: http://rubygems.org/gems/net-scp11/