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I’m new on the block (mailing list & ruby).
I have some questions:

  1. I’m trying to compress a file using gzip, which library is more
    suitable for this?
  2. does this mailing list used to ask those kind of questions?

thanks!

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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:30 PM, medarkness arkness
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I’m new on the block (mailing list & ruby).
I have some questions:

  1. I’m trying to compress a file using gzip, which library is more suitable for
    this?
  2. does this mailing list used to ask those kind of questions?

thanks!

Does `zlib’ meet your requirements?

Vikhyat K.

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perfect, thanks

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Hi,

On 13.06.2011 18:00, medarkness arkness wrote:

I’m new on the block (mailing list & ruby).

Welcome :slight_smile:

I have some questions:

  1. I’m trying to compress a file using gzip, which library is more suitable for
    this?

I think you will be fine with the zlib library, see
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/zlib/rdoc/index.html for
documentation.

Here’s a short example using irb:

$ irb
Welcome to IRB. You are using ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18) [i686-linux].
Have fun :wink:

open(‘test.txt’).read #=> “This is a simple test\n”
require ‘zlib’ #=> true
Zlib::GzipWriter.open(‘test.txt.gz’) { |gz| gz.write
open(‘test.txt’).read } #=> 22
open(‘test.txt.gz’).read
=>
“\u001F\x8B\b\u0000\x827\xF6M\u0000\u0003\v\xC9\xC8,V\u0000\xA2D\x85\xE2\xCC܂\x9CT\x85\x92\xD4\xE2\u0012.\u0000\x84\xC1\u0012F\u0016\u0000\u0000\u0000”
Zlib::GzipReader.open(‘test.txt.gz’).read #=> “This is a simple test\n”

cheers,

  • Markus
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:00 PM, medarkness arkness
[email protected] wrote:

  1. does this mailing list used to ask those kind of questions?

And yes, this mailing list is used to ask any kind of question related
to Ruby.

Welcome !

Jesus.