From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-09-06T00:36:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby_archive 0.1.0 released



On Sep 3, 6:07 pm, Jonathan Nielsen <jonat...@jmnet.us> 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 athttp://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)'

I would like to suggest a more robust approach of subclassing File and
Dir, (e.g. File::Archive or ArchiveFile), rather than overriding File
and Dir methods. For #load and #require:

  '(filename).zip/(file_inside_archive)'

would work as well and be clearer.