Equivalent of cURL for Ruby?

Question

Is there a cURL library for Ruby?

Answer 1

Here's a little program I wrote to get some files with.

base = "http://media.pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/code/samples/tutthreads_"

for i in 1..50

  url = "#{ base }#{ i }.rb"
  file = "tutthreads_#{i}.rb"

  File.open(file, 'w') do |f|   
    system "curl -o #{f.path} #{url}"
  end

end

I know it could be a little more eloquent but it serves it purpose. Check it out. I just cobbled it together today because I got tired of going to each URL to get the code for the book that was not included in the source download.