From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-09-16T04:09:37+09:00
Subject: Re: how to stream or write data into a tar.gz file as if the data were  from files?

> Others?

Although it's not what you're asking for, as you mention "zipping" maybe 
you could consider rubyzip:

  require 'zip/zipfilesystem'
  Zip::ZipFile.open("foo.zip") { |zfs|
    zfs.file.open("member.txt") { |f| f << data }
    zfs.commit
  }

zip is not tar, but it does have a some advantages - in particular the 
ability to get random-access to any particular member without having to 
read through the whole thing from the start.

> My feeling is that it shouldn't be that hard to write data into
> a .tar.gz format in either linux or ruby without actually having any
> files (i.e., everything in memory or streamed in).

When reading, rubyzip lets you spool directly out of the zip. When 
writing, I think that behind the scenes it spools to a tempfile, and 
when you commit it then packs this into the archive.
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