From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-11-14T10:05:16+09:00
Subject: Re: can't flush print when download open-uri

no one responded to this and i still can't get it to work. please help. let me rephrase very simply:

downloading file with open_uri and can't flush print to report download progress.

thanks,
-t0


> I'm confused. why won't this print? I tried flushing the $defout and $stdout as well as the source_file_io, but that doesn't work either.
> 
> # download
> prioritized_locations.each do |location|
>   begin
>     source_file_io = File.open(self.source_path,'w')
>     remote_file = open(location)
>     while incoming = remote_file.read(512)
>       source_file_io.write(incoming)
>     # THIS WON'T THIS PRINT!!!!!!!!!!!
>       print "\ca{source_file_io.pos}KB/#{@source_size}KB" 
>     end
>   rescue
>     puts "#{location} failed"
>     remote_file.close unless remote_file.nil?
>     source_file_io.close unless source_file_io.nil?
>     next   # try next location
>   else
>     puts ' Done.'
>     break  # we got it
>   ensure
>     remote_file.close unless remote_file.nil?
>     source_file_io.close unless source_file_io.nil?
>   end
> end
> 
> -t0
> 
>