Comments on: Downloading Videos From RubyPlus with Ruby (and unix) http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/05/12/downloading-videos-from-rubyplus-with-ruby-and-unix/ Thoughts & Discoveries Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:58:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: seo blog http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/05/12/downloading-videos-from-rubyplus-with-ruby-and-unix/#comment-52 seo blog Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:38:43 +0000 http://www.lakedenman.com/?p=6#comment-52 That was a well written article, very intereting,thank you for a good read. That was a well written article, very intereting,thank you for a good read.

]]> By: admin http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/05/12/downloading-videos-from-rubyplus-with-ruby-and-unix/#comment-18 admin Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:35:21 +0000 http://www.lakedenman.com/?p=6#comment-18 Hey gregf, You could also use %x to fire off commands. %x(wget http://www.google.com) According to Benchmark, 'system' takes the least amount of time. Hey gregf,
You could also use %x to fire off commands.
%x(wget http://www.google.com)

According to Benchmark, ’system’ takes the least amount of time.

]]> By: admin http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/05/12/downloading-videos-from-rubyplus-with-ruby-and-unix/#comment-10 admin Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:04:10 +0000 http://www.lakedenman.com/?p=6#comment-10 There is no benefit that I know of. I actually didn't know I could use system. Cool. There is no benefit that I know of.
I actually didn’t know I could use system. Cool.

]]> By: gregf http://www.lakedenman.com/2008/05/12/downloading-videos-from-rubyplus-with-ruby-and-unix/#comment-9 gregf Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:31:16 +0000 http://www.lakedenman.com/?p=6#comment-9 Your script helped a bunch as I really like the screen casts there as well. I had to set my wget line differently than yours. I could not just put my user:pass@rubyplus.org. I needed to go view my cookies in firefox for the site and get the session id from _rcast_session. So mine looked more like this. <pre name="code" class="ruby"> system "wget --no-cookies --header 'Cookie: _rcast_session='SomeLongSessionID' --continue --tries=inf http://rubyplus.org/episodes/#{episode_number}/download" </pre> Any benefit of using `` over system? Your script helped a bunch as I really like the screen casts there as well. I had to set my wget line differently than yours. I could not just put my user:pass@rubyplus.org. I needed to go view my cookies in firefox for the site and get the session id from _rcast_session. So mine looked more like this.

 system "wget --no-cookies --header 'Cookie: _rcast_session='SomeLongSessionID' --continue --tries=inf http://rubyplus.org/episodes/#{episode_number}/download”

Any benefit of using “ over system?

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