From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-04-09T19:25:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby WGet

On 09.04.2009 12:00, Marc Heiler wrote:
> I would need a ruby "wget version" which works on linux and windows.
> 
> I would like to feed it an URL to a .tar.bz2 or .zip or .tar.gz file and
> have it download. That's what it basically should do.

> I once wrote a minimal ruby wget wrapper but it has some problems as the
> code is years old and messy :/  so I was wondering if anyone is using
> some ruby-wget thing?

It seems Net::HTTP is everything you need, especially since you just 
want to download a single file and did not mention other requirements.

Kind regards

	robert