Get a Gist's Content using groovy

getGistContent.groovy

@Grab(group='commons-httpclient', module='commons-httpclient', version='3.1')

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*


def encoding = 'UTF-8'
def gistUrl = 'https://gist.github.com/raw/949445'

def hc = new HttpClient()
def method = new GetMethod( gistUrl )
hc.executeMethod( method )

def reader = new InputStreamReader( method.getResponseBodyAsStream(), encoding )
def code = reader.text
reader.close()

method.releaseConnection()

println code 

getGistContent2.groovy

println 'https://raw.github.com/gist/949445'.toURL().getText('UTF-8')