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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Idealone Ideally <shekarls / gmail.com> wrote:

> bwv549 wrote:
> > yes, this should download any kind of file (including excel).  I use
> > it to read/write mp3 files from online:
> >
> > require 'open-uri'
> > open("http://someplace.com/somefile.mp3") do |in_io|
> >   File.open("somefile.mp3", 'w') do |out_io|
> >     out_io.print in_io.read
> >   end
> > end
>
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>
> Thanks guys for the reply.
>   Actually i had mistaken that the download picks the file from web
> server, but after talking to my developers i realized that they are
> internally getting the file using ftp.
>   I wanted to know how can i "pull a file from ftp". Is there any ruby
> library to pull or push files through "ftp"
>
>
Open-uri also works with ftp uri's
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ftpurl.html


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