Cleaned up your code some. Start using iterators and / or functional …

…programming tools (map, reduce, etc). They are the main reason your code becomes cleaner and more verbose than C/C++.

fifRC.rb

@@ -5,27 +5,24 @@
 
 source = "http://feeds.feedburner.com/railscasts"
 
-content =""
+content = ""
 
-open(source) do |s| content = s.read end
+open(source) do |s| 
+  content = s.read
+end
 
-rss =RSS::Parser.parse(content, false)
+rss = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false)
 
-name =[] #=> to store the name of videos
-
-base_url="http://media.railscasts.com/assets/episodes/videos/"
+base_url = "http://media.railscasts.com/assets/episodes/videos/"
 
 #SAMPLE_URL => http://media.railscasts.com/assets/episodes/videos/316-private-pub.webm
 
-0.upto(rss.items.count-1) { |f| name.push(rss.items[f].title) } #=> to fetch the titles from RSS feed
-0.upto(name.count-1) { |n| name[n] = name[n].sub("#","") } #=> Slice off # from the beginning
-0.upto(name.count-1) { |n| name[n] = name[n].gsub(" ","-") } #=> replace all blank spaces with "-"
-#print name
-
-final_url=[] #=> to store the final URL that needs to be passed to wget
-
-0.upto(name.count-1) { |n| final_url[n] = base_url + name[n].downcase + ".webm" }
+final_url = rss.items.collect do |item|
+  "#{ base_url }#{ item.title.sub("#","").gsub(" ","-").downcase }.webm"
+end
 
-#print final_url
+p final_url.inspect
 
-0.upto(final_url.count-1) { |n| `wget -c #{final_url[n].downcase}` }
+final_url.each do |url|
+  `wget -c #{url.downcase}`
+end