From: Anurag Priyam <anurag08priyam@...>
Date: 2011-02-24T02:09:09+09:00
Subject: Re: How to automate download pdf from web in ruby

> wasn't a learning curve), but I will be experimenting with Net::HTTP,
> out of curiousity and to get downloads straight into Ruby (I hope)
> instead of via a file downloaded by wget.

See if the download, and unzip functions here[1] helps. My fork[2] has
proxy support. I have send a pull request too, but the developer seems
to be on a leave.

It uses 'progressbar' gem to show progress, but you can safely omit it
and make a dependency free version :).

[1] https://github.com/maccman/bowline/blob/master/lib/bowline/tasks/libs.rake
[2] https://github.com/yeban/bowline/blob/proxy_support/lib/bowline/tasks/libs.rake

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