On Feb 22, 2012, at 14:24 , Ruby Student wrote:

> Hi Team,
> 
> I was wondering what will be a good tool/gem to use in Ruby to:
> 	Access a public website.
> 	Look for the existence of a tiff file
> 	Download the tiff file if exists
> I installed a tool I found, httparty, at http://rubygems.org/gems. 
> But I was wondering if anyone has any other recommendation(s).

I would use mechanize for this.