From: Lex Williams <etaern@...>
Date: 2008-09-03T22:28:32+09:00
Subject: Re: downloading files

Marcelo Barbudas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Which is the proper way to download a binary file?
> 
> Trying:
> open(temp_path,"w").write(open(http_path).read)
> 
> returns truncated files
> 
> Cheers,
> M.

here is a snippet that should work :

require "rubygems"
require "mechanize"

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.get(link_to_download).save_as("name_of_the_file")
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