Illustrates downloading a file in MacRuby. — From a question on StackOverflow about the corruption of downloaded files in MacRuby.

gistfile1.rb

def download_request(url, filePath:path, progressIndicator:progressBar)	
       
	file = File.open(path, "w+")
        begin
          Net::HTTP.get_response URI.parse(url) do |response|
	    
            if response['Location']!=nil
              puts 'Direct to: ' + response['Location']
              return download_request(response['Location'], filePath:path, progressIndicator:progressBar)
            end
	    
            # some stuff

            response.read_body do |segment|
              file.write(segment) 
              # some progress stuff.
            end
          end
        ensure
          file.close
        end
    end

    download_request("http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/tarball/master", filePath:"tarball.tar.gz", progressIndicator:nil)