UrlFetcher

This gem provides a class that will fetch a URL response and save the body to a Tempfile. This can be useful if you are fetching large HTTP objects so you don't need to read them into memory all at once. The response body is exposed as a stream.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'url_fetcher'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install url_fetcher

Usage

response = UrlFetcher.new("http://example.com/large_file") response.body # Returns a stream to a the body from a Tempfile on disk.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request