# Zlib, hidden classes and modules **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 16, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zlib-hidden-classes-and-modules/126280 "2008-01-16T23:31:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kryptonator](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kryptonator](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kryptonator)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zlib-hidden-classes-and-modules/126280/1 "2008-01-16T23:31:28Z")
Hello, I am pretty new to ruby although I am a quick learner and have the benefit of help from a pretty experienced scripter, however with my tutor being abscent from the forum and IRC channels I think maybe it’s time I started to join a specific forum regarding coding only. As my first question I would like some help with Zlib (Inflate.inflate + Defalte.deflate) here is a little snippet of code my tutor gave me a while ago. Dir.mkdir("./script") unless File.exist?("./script") $RGSS\_SCRIPTS.each do |s| s[1] = s[1].gsub(/::/,"_").gsub(///, "_") s[2] = Zlib::Inflate.inflate(s[2]) File.open("./script/#{s[1]}.rb",“wb”) do |f| f.print(s[0]) end end What this does is it saves all scripts in my program to a new folder in my project folder called scripts and it outputs them from a data file into .rb files allowing me to edit the code with notpad++ instead of using the built in script editor, now this is good however there are hidden classes and modules that I desperately need to edit as they fall short of the standard that I should expect, but they are’nt outputed with the above. So I did a test to see if the hidden classes and modules are included in the ruby heap. ObjectSpace::each\_object(Class){|x| p x } Which printed to screen all the usual Zlib, hash, array and also all the classes I can edit within the editor and listed all the hidden classes and modules, so my theory is they are contained in the editor and not a seperate file, I can also with the Zlib code above print to screen about 20 lines of a classes code, but again the hidden classes are well, hidden, I would like to know if there would be a way. Is there a way to view hidden classes and modules code, also is it possible to print to screen more than about 20 lines of a classes code.