From: Thomas Sondergaard <ts_news1@...>
Date: 2005-09-07T04:36:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ZIP: Writing binary file fails

Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote:
> 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?

Nothing. You found yet another bug in rubyzip - this time Windows 
specific, so I'm semi-excused :-). I have fixed it and put up 
rubyzip-0.5.12.

gem install rubyzip

or get it from http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyzip.

Thomas