From: Szymon Rozga <szymon.rozga@...>
Date: 2006-09-22T22:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading files from the internet into RMagick

That works. I wasn't aware of the way binary IO was done in Ruby.
Thanks!

-Szymon

Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> On 9/21/06, Szymon Rozga <szymon.rozga@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am not sure how to go about doing this. I would like to get a file
> > given an URL. The I would like to mess around with that file, but I am
> > having a hard time actually initializing the Magick::Image object.
> >
> > I read the image using open-uri like so:
> > require 'rmagick'
> > require 'open-uri'
> > include Magick
> >
> > open(url) do |f|
> >   image = from_blob(f.read)
> > end
> >
> >
> > However, it turns out that f is of type "Tempfile" and calling read
> > returns "" and read(int) returns nil. So I don't know where to go from
> > here. How can this be done?
>
> Does this work?
> open(url, 'rb') do |f|
>   image = from_blob(f.read)
> end