From: rio4ruby <Christopher.Kleckner@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T02:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: how to download a file ?

To follow up on the excellent suggestion by Kenosis ;) Here is how
Rio's copy-to operator could be used to download a file.

 require 'rio'

 rio(url) > rio('output_dir')

The post mentions that the file is compressed. If it is a gzipped file
and one wished to have an uncompressed local copy, something like the
following could be used.

 rio(url_of_gzipped_file).gzip > rio('output_dir')


Cheers
-Christopher


Kenosis wrote:
> Might also be a good use of Rio (search this group for info on Rio.)
>
> Ken
>
> Jeffrey Schwab wrote:
> > Une b�vue wrote:
> > > i'd like to know how to download a compressed file (4 to 15 mb) with
> > > ruby, and how to choose the folder to receive it ???
> >
> > require 'open-uri'
> >
> > url = 'http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/tree/browse_frm/' +
> >      'thread/6db927bc86697398/f3cd16a2b541528c?rnum=1&_done=' +
> >      '%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.ruby%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F6db9' +
> >      '27bc86697398%2Ff3cd16a2b541528c%3F#doc_f3cd16a2b541528c'
> >
> > open("myfile.html", 'w') do |dst|
> >      open(url) do |src|
> >          dst.write(src.read)
> >      end
> > end