This script retrieves the content of url and dumps it to the output

Example copy this script into file named : get_page.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'net/http'
host,port,url = ARGV
http = Net::HTTP.new(host, port)
STDERR.puts "url {#url}"
response, data = http.get(url)
puts data

Usage

ruby get_page.rb <host> <port> <url>

The url is specified as a relative path

ruby get_page.rb livrona.com 80 /resource/home

A compact single line version can also be used

ruby -rnet/http -e 'Net::HTTP.get_print(URI.parse(ARGV[0]))' http://dzone.com/links/index.html