From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T00:27:07+09:00
Subject: Re: need to fetch a zip file from url and unzip it

On 11/16/06, phil.swenson@gmail.com <phil.swenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't Zlib for gzip?  I'm trying to access a zip file.
>
> To use ruby Zip for this, but I have a string, not a binary form the
> > >  require 'open-uri'
> > >  zipFile = open(URL).read
>
> code...
>
> not sure how to proceed.
>
> thanks,

The string you have is the content of the zip file. To make it a file
just write it to a file.
File.open(NAME, 'wb') {|f| f.write string}

You may want to try rubyzip.sf.net

I'm not sure but I think gzip and zip files use the same compression.