From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-03-04T00:10:09+09:00
Subject: Re: How to download file from web site

On 03.03.2007 15:47, 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?

You might be surprised to learn that there is also Net::HTTP...

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html

And then there's open-uri

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/index.html

	robert