From: bwv549 <jtprince@...>
Date: 2009-04-08T06:34:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Downloading a file using ruby

  require 'open-uri'

  open("http://localhost/jtprince/TRASH.TRASH") do |io|
    data = io.read
  end

Are you looking for something like that?  This works on my own machine
to grab files under the web server.

--John