From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2003-05-09T17:50:24+09:00
Subject: Re: GZip output compression

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 05:25:31PM +0900, Dominik Werder wrote:
> Hi rubists,
> 
> for my web projects I need gzip to compress the data before sending it to 
> the browser.
> How can I do this?

It's usually implemented by the webserver itself.
See Apache's documentation for mod_deflate (Apache 2.x) or mod_gzip (1.3).

> And dear ruby folks,
> this is why PHP is unfortunately in advantage over ruby: It has many built 
> in libs :)
> 
> btw: is there any good tutorial on how to make my own C bindings? Yes, I'm 
> C newbie..

The whole Programming Ruby book is online. Here's the chapter about
Extending Ruby:

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_ruby.html


Regards,

  Michael