From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2006-12-04T03:19:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Library to read/write TAR files

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 06:30:12AM +0900, Michel Casabianca wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a library to read/write TAR files. I've had a look on  
> RubyForge and searched for one on Google but found nothing (except an  
> old library that doesn't seem to be maintained anymore). Does anyone  
> know such a library?

Archive::Tar::Minitar is what you're looking for I believe.  Its part of
the ruwiki project.

    http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruwiki/

% gem search --remote minitar
archive-tar-minitar (0.5.1, 0.5.0)
    Provides POSIX tarchive management from Ruby programs

And from the RDoc for it:

    Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line
    utility that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive
    files.

I've used it several times with great success.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org