From: kingsley@...
Date: 2003-06-04T17:57:47+09:00
Subject: File retrieval problems

HI

I am struggling with how to do the following in Ruby:

go to a url
and download a zip file from the site to a location on my hard
drive

then unzip the file to a folder

I need to do this on a windows
platform.

I\'m guessing I should use try to use the HTTP module in some
way to do this? But I can\'t seem to work out how to grab the zip file
rather than an html page?
The unzipping I guess could be done with
system calls, unless Ruby has a way to unzip stuff?

All help greatly
appreciated

Kingsley