From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-03-05T01:13:59+09:00
Subject: Re: How to download file from web site

On Mar 4, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Bil Kleb wrote:

> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> 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
>
> He asks naively...
>
>  Why is this so complicated, e.g., the 8192 buffered write, etc.?

So you don't try to slurp a very large file into Ruby's memory I'm  
guessing.

James Edward Gray II