From: Dominik Honnef <dominikho@...>
Date: 2008-03-06T04:31:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Limiting rate on downloading a file http?

On [Fri, 22.02.2008 03:12], Kyle Hunter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for a solution for downloading a file from http and limiting
> the download rate. I do not want to use `wget`. I hear you can atleast
> get a ball-park  rate-limit out there by using open-uri and sleep. Any
> other suggestion, or gems/etc. that can help me?
> 
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Well, if you are using Linux, you can have a look at the program trickle,
an user-space bandwidth shaper/limiter.

But that would be more like.. "trickle $settings ruby file.rb", so not implemented inside your script,
and as said before, linux only. (Dont know about Mac though)
-- 
Dominik Honnef