Asp Forum - Open link/DL file

Erik Boling

8/9/2007 12:20:00 AM

I was wondering what the command is for Ruby to DL files, and or open
links on the internet?My favorite radio station has this link that feeds
you the live radio via- real player or windows media player. My goal is
to be able to write a program that downloads a live feed from a radio
station that i like to listen to,
then i could put the program on schedule tasks and you that as my alarm
clock. *If your wondering, no i cant just go get a radio, i dont get
that station where i am at*
Much thanks for any help!:)
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Roger Pack

8/9/2007 2:02:00 AM

look up open-uri
Erik Boling wrote:
> I was wondering what the command is for Ruby to DL files, and or open
> links on the internet?My favorite radio station has this link that feeds
> you the live radio via- real player or windows media player. My goal is
> to be able to write a program that downloads a live feed from a radio
> station that i like to listen to,
> then i could put the program on schedule tasks and you that as my alarm
> clock. *If your wondering, no i cant just go get a radio, i dont get
> that station where i am at*
> Much thanks for any help!:)

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Erik Boling

8/9/2007 2:52:00 AM

Roger Pack wrote:
> look up open-uri
Well i have tried looking that up on google, and other different key
words, but still i cant get what i'm looking for. It's all talking about
reading from the web page and putting into to hashes and what not. I
just want to open the web page.
I tried doing,
require 'open-uri'
open('http://kexp.org/audio/kex...)
this is what i thought you should do, but all the sites have all
this other fancy code in there so i'm not sure?
if you type this in on address bar it works
but nothing happens when i try and write it like that:(?
Any more suggestions?
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Prime

8/9/2007 4:57:00 AM

I think if I understand you correctly you just want to open the link in
a browser instance?
if you are on windows you might want to check this out:

http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2007/05/automating-internet-explorer-with...

or

if you are on a mac
`open http://kexp.org/audi...`
this will open the page in your default browser.

On 2007-08-08 19:52:00 -0700, Erik Boling <schmode93@yahoo.com> said:

> Roger Pack wrote:
>> look up open-uri
> Well i have tried looking that up on google, and other different key
> words, but still i cant get what i'm looking for. It's all talking about
> reading from the web page and putting into to hashes and what not. I
> just want to open the web page.
> I tried doing,
> require 'open-uri'
> open('http://kexp.org/audi...')
> this is what i thought you should do, but all the sites have all
> this other fancy code in there so i'm not sure?
> if you type this in on address bar it works
> but nothing happens when i try and write it like that:(?
> Any more suggestions?

Erik Boling

8/10/2007 4:23:00 AM

Prime wrote:
> I think if I understand you correctly you just want to open the link in
> a browser instance?
> if you are on windows you might want to check this out:

I'm not sure if I'm totally lost on how to install the gem watir? I
download the gem, but then to you have to install it i guess in cmd from
what I'm reading online. so i save the watir.gem in "c" drive and type
in on cmd
C:\>gem install watir
but i get this message saying that gem is not a recognizable command?
what am i doing wrong?
On a side note, i don't have a very clear idea of what ruby gems is
*exactly* does any one know of any good sites to explain what it all is?
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Prime

8/10/2007 4:43:00 AM

A gem is...
http://rubygems.org/read/chapte...

On 2007-08-09 21:23:21 -0700, Erik Boling <schmode93@yahoo.com> said:

> Prime wrote:
>> I think if I understand you correctly you just want to open the link in
>> a browser instance?
>> if you are on windows you might want to check this out:
>
>
> I'm not sure if I'm totally lost on how to install the gem watir? I
> download the gem, but then to you have to install it i guess in cmd from
> what I'm reading online. so i save the watir.gem in "c" drive and type
> in on cmd
> C:\>gem install watir
> but i get this message saying that gem is not a recognizable command?
> what am i doing wrong?
> On a side note, i don't have a very clear idea of what ruby gems is
> *exactly* does any one know of any good sites to explain what it all is?

Erik Boling

8/10/2007 2:24:00 PM

Prime wrote:
> A gem is...
> http://rubygems.org/read/chapte...
Ah, thanks, thats funny i just found that site before i read you post
:P.

now does anyone know what i'm doing wrong when i'm installing this gem?

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