From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2006-07-17T04:56:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Alternative to open-uri?

In article <1153077206.189153.54380@35g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
  "CBlair1986" <CBlair1986@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm using open-uri to open a very large web file. This is all fine and
> dandy, I thought, until I saw how much memory it was using. I can deal
> with a little bit of memory taken up, but memory up to the size of the
> file is just too much.

open-uri use Tempfile for large file.  (> 10k)
So it shouldn't consume much memory.
-- 
Tanaka Akira