From: Jim Weirich <jim-keyword-rforum.c88827@...>
Date: 2005-11-30T07:49:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Grab Image From Web Server

lists wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am still fairly new to Ruby.
> 
> Given the URL of an image, I would like to craft some code that grabs 
> the
> image from the remote Web server and puts it in a file on the local 
> machine.
> 
> Can anyone give me some tips on doing that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Hunter

requre 'open-uri'
open("output_filename.jpg", "w") { |outfile|
  outfile.write open("http://image_url.jpg") { |inf|
    ifile.read
  }
}

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