# lifted from https://gist.github.com/1335041 require 'rubygems' require 'rubygems/package' require 'zlib' require 'fileutils' module Railsthemes class Tar # Creates a tar file in memory recursively # from the given path. # # Returns a StringIO whose underlying String # is the contents of the tar file. def self.tar(path) tarfile = StringIO.new("") Gem::Package::TarWriter.new(tarfile) do |tar| Dir[File.join(path, "**/*")].each do |file| mode = File.stat(file).mode relative_file = file.sub /^#{Regexp::escape path}\/?/, '' if File.directory?(file) tar.mkdir relative_file, mode else tar.add_file relative_file, mode do |tf| File.open(file, "rb") { |f| tf.write f.read } end end end end tarfile.rewind tarfile end # gzips the underlying string in the given StringIO, # returning a new StringIO representing the # compressed file. def self.gzip(tarfile) gz = StringIO.new("") z = Zlib::GzipWriter.new(gz) z.write tarfile.string z.close # this is necessary! # z was closed to write the gzip footer, so # now we need a new StringIO StringIO.new gz.string end # un-gzips the given IO, returning the # decompressed version as a StringIO def self.ungzip(tarfile) Zlib::GzipReader.open(tarfile) do |f| StringIO.new(f.read) end end # untars the given IO into the specified # directory def self.untar(io, destination) Gem::Package::TarReader.new io do |tar| tar.each do |tarfile| destination_file = File.join destination, tarfile.full_name if tarfile.directory? FileUtils.mkdir_p destination_file else destination_directory = File.dirname(destination_file) FileUtils.mkdir_p destination_directory unless File.directory?(destination_directory) File.open destination_file, "wb" do |f| f.print tarfile.read end end end end end end end ### Usage Example: ### # # include Util::Tar # # io = tar("./Desktop") # io is a TAR of files # gz = gzip(io) # gz is a TGZ # # io = ungzip(gz) # io is a TAR # untar(io, "./untarred") # files are untarred