From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-03-04T00:04:56+09:00
Subject: Re: How to download file from web site

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Timothy Hunter wrote:
>
>> Okay, it's easy to download a file from an FTP server with Net::FTP. 
>> Given a URL like this: 
>> "http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17670/RMagick-1.15.3.tar.gz" 
>> is there a way using pure Ruby to download this file?
>>
>
> harp:~ > cat a.rb
> require 'open-uri'
> uri = 'http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17670/RMagick-1.15.3.tar.gz'
>
> open(uri) do |fin|
>   open(File.basename(uri), 'w') do |fout|
>     while(buf = fin.read(8192))
>       fout.write buf
>     end
>   end
> end
>
> harp:~ > ruby a.rb
>
> harp:~ > new RMagick-1.15.3.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r--    1 ahoward  ahoward   1048764 Mar  3 08:00 
> RMagick-1.15.3.tar.gz
>
>
> -a
Thanks again, Ara!