From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-09-04T07:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ruby_archive 0.1.0 released

On Sep 3, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Jonathan Nielsen wrote:

> After a summer of working on various ways to implement it, I'm happy to
> announce that I'm putting the first release of my Ruby Summer of Code
> project, ruby_archive 0.1.0, out into the wild.
> 
> It's available on rubygems as well as at
> http://github.com/byuni/ruby_archive
> 
> ruby_archive lets you use files within zip files much like normal files on
> your filesystem.  This means you can package data files and Ruby libraries
> within convenient zip files and still use them easily from your program.
> For open, load, require, and most File.*** and Dir.*** operations, you can
> access files within archives by targetting at a location like the following:
> '(filename)!/(file_inside_archive)'

Holy smoke.  This is freaking awesome!

James Edward Gray II