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A small gem to download and open remote URLs with ease. Intended originally for use with ActiveStorage in Rails 5.2.
Adds an EzDownload
module with a single class-level method, open
, which takes a URL string pointing to the file to be downloaded and returns the downloaded and opened file.
model_instance = SampleModel.new(title: 'A Good Title')
file = EzDownload.open('https://s3.amazonaws.com/some-bucket/some-file.jpg')
model_instance.image.attach(io: file, filename: 'some-file.jpg')
model_instance.save!
Seed your database from remote URLs!
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'ez_download', git: 'https://github.com/OscarAlvarez8830/EZDownload.git'
And then execute:
$ bundle
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
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We found that ez_download demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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