From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T06:56:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Good Ruby Examples?

How about an application which uses open-uri or Net::HTTP to download
all the files of a particular type from a web-page? For example, all
the images, or all the linked images, or all the linked mp3 files, or
whatever. I'd recommend just using regular expressions for the HTML
parsing, since that will show the power of regular expressions and
will also avoid the potential of Ruby XML parsing libraries barfing on
bad HTML.

The URI library can be used to handle relative URLs, etc.

This will be a good demo, and useful too.

Another option is a bulk-downloader that takes special URLs like
http://www.somesite.com/images/image_[01-25].jpg to get all the images
from image_01.jpg to image_25.jpg.

Ryan