From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-21T06:16:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it possible for rubyzip to return zipped data instead of writing 	it to the disk?

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szimek wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I got simple Rails app and I'd like to compress xml data and send it
| to the browser. I'm trying to use rubyzip for it, but i.e. the
| following usage:
|
| Zip::ZipFile.open("file.zip", Zip::ZipFile::CREATE) do |zip|
|     zip.get_output_stream("file.xml") {|f| f.puts xml_data}
| end
|
| returns nil and creates file on the disk.
|
| Is it possible for rubyzip to return zipped data (or file) instead of
| writing it to the disk?

Write file to disk, give user link, delete file after a time, in case
the download has to be repeated.

Caching saves CPU and memory. :)

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