I just wanted to add to this... I know I am 5 years too late, but I didn't want anyone else to be led astray.
You should be able to pull anything you can download in your browser into your app using tempfile. I had to play with it for a while, but something like this worked: require "open-uri" url = "whatev.com/file_id" file_name = "local_filename.pdf" Tempfile.new(file_name).tap do |file| file.binmode file.write(open(url).read) file.close end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/f883dc2e159eb7c592b922dc6fb06f68%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.