Wraps a Archive::Tar::Minitar::Writer with convenience methods and wrapped stream management; Output only works with random access data streams. See Output::new for details.

Methods
Public Class methods
new(output)

Creates a new Output object. If output is a stream object that responds to read), then it will simply be wrapped. Otherwise, one will be created and opened using Kernel#open. When Output#close is called, the stream object wrapped will be closed.

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# File lib/facets/minitar.rb, line 890
    def initialize(output)
      if output.respond_to?(:write)
        @io = output
      else
        @io = ::File.open(output, "wb")
      end
      @tarwriter = Archive::Tar::Minitar::Writer.new(@io)
    end
open(output) {|stream| ...}

With no associated block, +Output::open+ is a synonym for +Output::new+. If the optional code block is given, it will be passed the new writer as an argument and the Output object will automatically be closed when the block terminates. In this instance, +Output::open+ returns the value of the block.

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# File lib/facets/minitar.rb, line 873
    def self.open(output)
      stream = Output.new(output)
      return stream unless block_given?

      begin
        res = yield stream
      ensure
        stream.close
      end

      res
    end
Public Instance methods
close()

Closes the Writer object and the wrapped data stream.

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# File lib/facets/minitar.rb, line 905
    def close
      @tarwriter.close
      @io.close
    end
tar()

Returns the Writer object for direct access.

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# File lib/facets/minitar.rb, line 900
    def tar
      @tarwriter
    end