How to zip/unzip stuff with Ruby and Zip library
Small tutorial on how to zip/unzip directories and how to access single files stored in those archives without unzipping whole packages. Read more
Small tutorial on how to zip/unzip directories and how to access single files stored in those archives without unzipping whole packages. Read more
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Give the Pinch gem a try if you want to get hold of file in a zip archive.
The ruby zip landscape is a bit bleak. I made a completely independent gem for generating streaming zip files in rails—zipstream— because there were no reusable tools to do so.
Peter Hellbergs’ fantastic Pinch does the same.
A reusable zip library for these sorts of mash-ups would be amazing.
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