From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-03-21T13:14:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13017] ANN: Scarf - Self Contained Archive of Ruby Files


OK, so the title's longer than the code :)

   http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/scarf.html

This is a trivial little proof of concept: a way of packaging multiple
.rb files into a single archive, and then accessing them transparently
using a standard 'require'. It's not an installer, or a general
purpose archiver, nor does it (currently) do compression (although
that's easy to add: I had it doing LZW compression before I remembered
the patent). I just wanted to see if it could be done.

Long term, the idea is to make installation of multi-file libraries
tidier: rather than depositing lots of files into (say) site_ruby,
with Scarf you ship just one.

Anyway, this is really just a first draft of an idea. If anyone wants
to take it and make it fancier, please do.

Regards


Dave