From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T01:17:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Clash of RubyZip and PDF::Writer

On 9/14/06, Duane Morin <dmorin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using PDF::Writer to generate files by the hundreds.  My spec
> requires that I batch them up into zip files.  I thought this would be a
> piece of cake, but I appear to have run into a clash.  From what I can
> read in the documentation, PDF::Writer only has the "save_as" option
> available to me, which takes a file name and writes a file out to disk.
> However, ZipFile expects me to open up a new file inside it and then
> write contents to it.  I think that means I have to write out the pdf,
> then open it back up and stream its contents into the zipfile object?
> That seems like it will be pretty inefficient.  Am I missing something -
> is there a better way to tie these two libs together?

You're missing something. The implementation of #save_as is:

  def save_as(name)
    File.open(name, "wb") { |f| f.write self.render }
  end

Render is a public method. It isn't documented (surprisingly) on
PDF::Writer, but it does exist.

-austin
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