(Ruby) Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

Retrieves the actual data of the file into a memory (not to a local file).

Chilkat Ruby Downloads install from rubygems.org gem install chilkat or download... Ruby Library for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Alpine Linux

require 'chilkat'

#  This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
#  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

#  Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
#  See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
http.put_AuthToken("BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN")

http.put_FollowRedirects(true)

#  The file is specified by the file ID.
#  In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 283371752129.
#  The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
bd = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()
success = http.DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content",bd)
if (success != true)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data." + "\n";

print "Number of bytes: " + bd.get_NumBytes().to_s() + "\n";