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Plain old Ruby The most popular way to download a file without any dependencies is to use the standard library open-uri. In the directory in which you opened IRB you will now find the image you downloaded. Problems with open-uri The thing is, using open-uri like this is not ideal. Notably, open-uri : leaves you vulnerable to remote code execution sometimes returns a Tempfile other times StringIO doesn't let you limit redirects or file size To solve all of this, Janko created the Down gem.
Improving downloads with the Down gem Let's download the same image using Down. Start by installing the gem:. Advanced usage Down takes a bunch of other options too, to control the download experience. Next steps In this post we've seen how to download images using both open-uri and Down. Rate this post. Sign up and start building Not ready yet? See the Wiki how to verify PGP signatures.
X x64 installer. It provides the biggest number of compatible gems and installs the MSYS2 Devkit alongside Ruby, so gems with C-extensions can be compiled immediately. Ruby can be updated to the latest patch version e. Installed gems are not overwritten and will work with the new version without re-installation. The Devkit can be updated separately using the ridk install command.
If the new Ruby version is from a different stable branch, then please use a new target directory for installation. That is to say, a previous RubyInstaller This is because gems with C extensions are not compatible between ruby Find out more in the FAQ.
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