From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2004-10-30T12:38:56+09:00
Subject: Re: From a Ruby Script, How to automatically login to www.netflix.com

In article <41827453.7070508@email.byu.edu>, Jamis Buck wrote:
[...]
>It's actually a part of the Ruby standard library as of 1.8. Thus, you 
>should just be able to 'require "dl"' and have at it.
>
>MAJOR drawback of Ruby/DL, though, is lack of documentation. It can be 
>very discouraging.

You may already know about this, but dl.txt is available:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ruby/ext/dl/doc/dl.txt