[Ruby] Tar'ing or Zip'ing with ruby script
 

Is there anyway to pass shell commands through ruby script?

I want to be able to tar or zip files but don't want to have to create a separate script to do this and then have ruby finish the rest of the job.

Is there a way that I can insert a tar or zip command inside of my ruby script?

Hi, sorry this is somewhat late.

The Zlib module (part of the standard library) has support for zip and gzip handling of files: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdo...doc/index.html

Also, the Kernel module has a method "system(cmd, [args]*)" that executes a command in a subshell: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html

Edit: Yay! This is my (expt 2 9)th post!

Thanks for the reply, I will give it a shot...