zip - Ruby Unzip String

Question

I have to work with a zipped (regular Zip) string in Ruby. Apparently I can't save a temporary file with Ruby-Zip or Zip-Ruby.

Is there any practicable way to unzip this string?

Answer 1

rubyzip supports StringIO since version 1.1.0

require "zip"
# zip is the string with the zipped contents
Zip::InputStream.open(StringIO.new(zip)) do |io|
  while (entry = io.get_next_entry)
    puts "#{entry.name}: '#{io.read}'"
  end
end