From: James <james@...>
Date: 2003-12-09T12:02:54+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-zip problem

Takashi & Kayoko Sano wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm now playing with ruby-zip. I can make it work right for 
> decompression of zip files, but somehow not for compression. 
> It actually creates a zip file, but it's corrupted. Could anyone
> point me to the right direction? I'm a novice programmer and ruby-zip
> is scarcely documented, so maybe I'm not aware of things that 
> require attention. 
> 
> The sample script is shown below. 
> 
> require 'zip/zip'
> 
> Zip::ZipFile.open("test.sxw") {|zf|
>   zf.replace("content.xml", "content_new.xml")
> }

I've encountered the same issue doing the same thing.

You may be interested in a new RubyForge project, OOo4R, which intends 
to offer a reasonably compleate, pure-Ruby API for manipulating 
OpenOffice documents.

http://ooo4r.rubyforge.org/

(There's no code there as of yet.  I have to sort out some ideas I tried 
out recently and then upload the code classes.)

The project was born from Daniel Carrera's OOoExtract program.
http://www.math.umd.edu/%7Edcarrera/openoffice/tools/ooo_extract.html

If you get an answer to your problem, please post it to ruby-talk.  If I 
figure it out I'll do the same.


James