require 'zip' module Iconly # This is a simple example which uses rubyzip to # recursively generate a zip file from the contents of # a specified directory. The directory itself is not # included in the archive, rather just its contents. # # Usage: # directory_to_zip = "/tmp/input" # output_file = "/tmp/out.zip" # zf = ZipFileGenerator.new(directory_to_zip, output_file) # zf.write() class ZipFileGenerator # Initialize with the directory to zip and the location of the output archive. def initialize(input_dir, output_file) @input_dir = input_dir @output_file = output_file end # Zip the input directory. def write entries = Dir.entries(@input_dir) - %w(. ..) ::Zip::File.open(@output_file, ::Zip::File::CREATE) do |io| write_entries entries, '', io end end private # A helper method to make the recursion work. def write_entries(entries, path, io) entries.each do |e| zip_file_path = path == '' ? e : File.join(path, e) disk_file_path = File.join(@input_dir, zip_file_path) if File.directory? disk_file_path recursively_deflate_directory(disk_file_path, io, zip_file_path) else put_into_archive(disk_file_path, io, zip_file_path) end end end def recursively_deflate_directory(disk_file_path, io, zip_file_path) io.mkdir zip_file_path subdir = Dir.entries(disk_file_path) - %w(. ..) write_entries subdir, zip_file_path, io end def put_into_archive(disk_file_path, io, zip_file_path) io.get_output_stream(zip_file_path) do |f| f.write(File.open(disk_file_path, 'rb').read) end end end end