diff --git a/Library/Contributions/examples/brew-fetch.rb b/Library/Contributions/examples/brew-fetch.rb
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..73e1f6a87d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Library/Contributions/examples/brew-fetch.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Downloads the tarballs for the given formulae to the Cache
+
+require 'formula'
+
+ARGV.formulae.each do |f|
+  f.downloader.fetch
+end
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
index d31c1fa7ae..5353c65d4b 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ end
 class Formula
   include FileUtils
   
+  attr_reader :url, :version, :homepage, :name, :specs, :downloader
+
   # Homebrew determines the name
   def initialize name='__UNKNOWN__'
     set_instance_variable 'url'
@@ -119,8 +121,6 @@ class Formula
     @downloader.cached_location
   end
 
-  attr_reader :url, :version, :homepage, :name, :specs
-
   def bin; prefix+'bin' end
   def sbin; prefix+'sbin' end
   def doc; prefix+'share/doc'+name end