From: Thomas Sondergaard <ts_news1@...>
Date: 2005-09-06T17:51:27+09:00
Subject: Re: ZIP: Writing binary file fails

Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ruby version 1.8.2 (windows XP)
> RubyZip version 0.5.11
> 
> I am trying to zip a binary file.
> For example
> 
> Zip::ZipFile.open(target, Zip::ZipFile::CREATE) { |zipfile|
>    zipfile.dir.mkdir('bin')
>    zipfile.file.open('bin\eclipse.exe', 'w'){ |f|
>      f.write(File.open('bin\eclipse.exe', 'rb').read)
>    }
> }
> 
> This  zips the file but file has only first 163 bytes written (original 
> file size ~100K)
> 
> What I am doing wrong?

You are using backslashes in the zip-file, which you shouldn't do, but I 
doubt that is the cause of the problem. Other than that your code works 
fine on my linux box. I'll try it in windows when I get home. I suspect 
it is a bug in rubyzip.

Thomas