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Download all files in RSS feed using Ruby

I’m working on learning Ruby on Rails and one great resource that I find myself going to is RailsCast. But as I really need to learn Ruby I wanted to write a quick program to download all the episodes to my harddisk and watch them using Plex Media Center. There’s probably a million different utilities (or podcast managers) that can do that, but using them I won’t learn to program Ruby that way. There’s probably a better way of doing this, but hey, do it and post a comment.

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

doc = Hpricot.XML(open("http://feeds.feedburner.com/railscasts"))

(doc/"enclosure").each do |para|
  filename = File.basename(para[:url])
  puts "== Found a file #{filename}"
  open(filename,"w").write(open(para[:url]).read)
end
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  1. Peter Olsson
    April 24th, 2009 at 22:01 | #1

    Va?

  2. Jacken
    April 25th, 2009 at 06:28 | #2

    Hehe, du ?r rolig du Peter

  3. Jacken
    April 25th, 2009 at 06:29 | #3

    Men skaffa f?r fan en gravatar. Tryck p? Gravatar bilden och regga dig. Det ?r ju hela din framst?llning p? n?tet som st?r p? spel…