newbie: copy file from github to local directory?

[Jason McMahan]

Good day,

I am new to rails and would like suggestions/help to copy a file from github to a local directory.

I assume use the FileUtils but any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

[Joe Guerra]

just download it.

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[Ralph Shnelvar]

Jason,

I am not aware of any Rails/Ruby-native facility to download stuff from github.

As has been stated elseelse - and I will paraphrase - just use github-native commands.

Ralph

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[Hassan Schroeder]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Jason McMahan <jason.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am new to rails and would like suggestions/help to copy a file from github
> to a local directory.

Not a Rails question at all, but assuming you know the URL of the
file you want to retrieve:

https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.5.1/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/OpenURI.html

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[Jason McMahan]

The url is https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/blob/master/config/66-azure-storage.rules

I thought something along the lines of 

    if File.exist? '/etc/udev/rules.d/66-azure-storage.rules'

      setcode do

       #*something*

      end

    else

      #Copy file from url to /etc/udev/rules.d/66-azure-storage.rules

      #then do something.

    end

Thank you all the quick replies and help thus far it is appreciated.

[Jason McMahan]

Would this code work or am i way off?

    setcode do

      if File.exist? '/etc/udev/rules.d/66-azure-storage.rules'

          #do something

      else

        download = open('https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/blob/master/config/66-azure-storage.rules')

        IO.copy_stream(download, '/etc/udev/rules.d/66-azure-storage.rules')

         #do something

      end

    end

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:49 AM, Jason McMahan <jason.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would this code work or am i way off?

Why not just try it?