Downloading files on the DL
gem install downlow
Tested against Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1
Why is downloading and extracting files such a pain in Ruby?
Downlow to the rescue.
$ irb -rubygems -rdownlow
>> DL('http://gist.github.com/gists/290151/download', '~/Desktop/gist')
=> #<Pathname:/Users/aaronquint/Desktop/gist>
$ ls -l ~/Desktop/gist/
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 3 aaronquint aaronquint 102 Jan 30 00:17 gist290151-4d195b0fc72a4b5e52f8e2b5d1670d078c03a018
>> DL('git://github.com/quirkey/resque-status.git', '~/Desktop')
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/aaronquint/Sites/__active/downlow/tmp/resque-status/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 323, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (186/186), done.
remote: Total 323 (delta 166), reused 169 (delta 83)
Receiving objects: 100% (323/323), 42.84 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (166/166), done.
=> #<Pathname:/Users/aaronquint/Desktop/resque-status>
Sweet.
BONUS BEATS FOR GITHUB Downloads the tarball and extracts.
>> DL('gh://quirkey/sammy', ~/Desktop')
Downlow is comprised of two main features: Fetchers and Extractors. They do what they sound like they do.
To just fetch a remote (or local file or directory)
Downlow::Fetcher.fetch('remote', :destination => 'local')
Fetcher currently handles these styles of URL
Git (git://) HTTP (http://) Github (gh://user/project) Local (anything else)
Extractors take a local file, and extract them based on their extension:
Downlow::Extractor.extract('local.archive', :destination => 'directory')
The extractors currently supported are
.tar.gz .zip dir (everything else)
DL() is just an alias for Downlow.get() which is just a wrapper around .fetch() and then .extract()
Thanks to @mxcl for the awesome pathname extensions in homebrew/ Thanks to @defunkt as I took some ideas from rip.
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright © 2010 Aaron Quint. See LICENSE for details.