Ruby download file locally

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Tho Nguyen Tho Nguyen 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. This is the correct answer, at least in ruby 1. The accepted answer is confusing because it mentions both installing a gem FROM a local file using the --local flag and TO a local directory.

The command for this would just be gem install --user-install request-log-analyzer. Lesmana Happy to improve the answer to make that more clear if you have a better idea on phrasing. Hmm, is there a way to do it without installing rvm? Since this is a shared computer, I'm trying to minimize the number of things that I need to install.

The advantage of RVM is no privilege needed. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Steve 10 10 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Oscar Oscar 3, 2 2 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges.

Haris Krajina Haris Krajina Second line should be probably fixed to: gem install --local foo-bar Worth of mentioning is that you do not need --local handle but documentation says it does so I've respected it. HarisKrajina It is helpful to have --local because it stops it from checking each source for the repo and save a bit of time.

Particularly useful if you have edited a gem found online Did this to make it compatible with another program. Make sure you run the copy command as superuser sudo, if you're running Ubuntu like me P. I tried this on an image. The image was not properly written to the file.

As if it has been corrupted or something. Also could you guide me to do this same in a Rails application. Can i use this in a Rails application?

Yes, you can use it in a rails application. The file not being written properly is probably because I forgot to open the destination in write-binary mode. I'll edit that now. This reads the whole file in memory. The best way is IO. Show 3 more comments. Abram Clemens Helm Clemens Helm 3, 1 1 gold badge 19 19 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. And more efficient as the output is not stored as a string in memory.

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When I didn't find a source to download the data for all YC companies, and came across this repo with outdated data - I decided to build my own. I hope to have enough time at some point to update the data at yclist repo.

Skip to content. Star 9. Branches Tags. Could not load branches. Could not load tags. If you need to dynamically determine your file's extension, you can usually grab it from the URL or file path you are reading into your Tempfile:. Many developers use local file storage for their development environment.

In these cases, local file paths often appear in methods that are expecting URLs. Not fun. We like Ruby Tempfiles for performing file-oriented operations on remote resources. What do you use? Thanks to Ryan Foster for his contributions to the sample code. Noah Over. Solomon Hawk.