From: Thomas Sondergaard <ts_news1@...>
Date: 2006-12-30T21:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: reading .jar files

Mark Volkmann wrote:
> How can I read the entries in a Java .jar file from Ruby?
> 
> I tried the standard library Zlib, but that doesn't work ... I think 
> because .jar files use the zip format instead of the gzip format.
> 
> I tried the rubyzip library at http://rubyzip.sourceforge.net/. For some 
> reason that didn't get to all the entries in the file, only "META-INF/" 
> and "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF".
> 

rubyzip should be able to read the jar file. Can you send me a .jar file 
that is causing you problems.

Best regards,

Thomas Sondergaard