From: lasitha <lasitha.ranatunga@...>
Date: 2009-04-07T00:45:51+09:00
Subject: Re: File copy

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Tushar Gandhi <gandhi.tush@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> File.copy("http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2574/90/75/704291251/457931_8289306.jpg","/images");
>

Hello Tushar,

Take a look at 'net/http', which is included in the ruby standard library:
http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Net/HTTP.html

For example the following code will download and save the ruby logo
off ruby-lang.org:

require 'net/http'
uri = URI.parse('http://www.ruby-lang.org/images/logo.gif')
Net::HTTP.get_response(uri) do |response|
  File.open('/tmp/logo.gif', 'w') {|f| f.write response.body }
end

There are various other ways to go about doing this - some of which
have been mentioned above - but 'net/http' is a good place to start.

solidarity,
lasitha.