On Dec 6, 2007 6:29 AM, Brian Scott <cuiguy / network32.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a Ruby Newbie
>
> I need to login to a ftp server and download the newest file on the
> server. I know the basics of Net::FTP but I can't figure out how to
> download the newest file based on its time stamp.

FTP#list gives you list of files, possibly with timestamps, and
FTP#mtime gives you last modification time of a particular file.

RTFRDoc ;-) (e.g. http://ruby-doc.org/core/)