From: thefed <fedzor@...>
Date: 2008-01-02T03:18:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to download >1GB files


On Dec 31, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Tim Hunter wrote:

> thefed wrote:
>> But doesn't open-uri download the whole thing to your compy? I was  
>> about to use it, but then I ran it in irb and saw it returned a  
>> file object.
>
> Isn't that what you want to happen? I thought your question was  
> about how to download it in small chunks so it's not all in memory  
> at the same time. This code downloads the whole file, but 8kb at a  
> time.

No, I thought when you use Kernel#open with open-uri, it FIRST  
downloads the entire 1GB file to your temp folder, and THEN runs your  
block on that file in temp