#summary Ruby examples
+= Ruby Examples =
-
-= Introduction =
-
-Various Ruby examples
+Various simple Ruby examples.
Author: [http://www.cmzmasek.net/ Christian M Zmasek], Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
= Using net/ftp to download all Proteomes from the Ensembl Database =
+This, or something like it, can be used to download from Ensembl all "pep.all.fa.gz" files.
+
{{{
require 'net/ftp'
EMAIL = 'myemail'
PUB_RELEASE_DIR = '/pub/release-64/fasta'
-PEP_DIR = '/pep'
+PEP_DIR = '/pep'
ftp = Net::FTP.new('ftp.ensembl.org', 'anonymous', EMAIL)
ftp.passive = true # To avoid "No route to host" error.
pepfiles = ftp.list()
pepfiles.each do | pepfile |
pepfile = pepfile.split().last
- if pepfile =~ /all.fa./
+ if pepfile =~ /all.fa.gz/ # Only want the "all.fa.gz" files (and not the
+ # "abinitio" files).
ftp.getbinaryfile(pepfile)
puts 'downloaded "' + pepfile + '"'
count += 1