From: Yochen Gutmann Date: 2006-05-30T08:21:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Saving a PDF locally Joel VanderWerf wrote: > Why are you doing it a byte at a time? just ran out of ideas ;-) > This seems to run much faster for me: > > require 'open-uri' > > open("http://path.berkeley.edu/~vjoel/redshift/ruby-sdforum.pdf") do |u| > targetFile = File.new("test.pdf","w") > loop do > dat = u.read(1000) > break unless dat > targetFile.write dat > end > end Fantastic! Thanx a lot. -Yochen -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.