codeploy? It's hard to use it

Recently, I tried to use codeploy to upload my program to many planetlab nodes.

But seeing the setting instruction, it's too inconvenient.

There are too many parameter to set.

So I write a simple ruby script to implement this multiple upload function.

usage: ./multi-upload directly_you_want_to_upload

script:

#! /usr/bin/ruby

arr = IO.readlines("node_list")

arr.each { |x|

puts "node name:#{x.chomp}"

cmd = "scp -r #{ARGV[0]} ACCOUNT@#{x.chomp}:/home/ACCOUNT"

puts `#{cmd}`

}

See, 9 lines code can do the same thing.

Why don't use it?