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MemTar

In-memory tar archive creation

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'memtar'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install memtar

Usage

require 'memtar'

archive = MemTar.new
archive.default[:uname] = "nobody"

archive.add_file "foo", "content", mode: 0640
archive.add_file "bar/baz", "hi!"
archive.add_symlink "bar/xyzzy", "baz"
archive.add_file "this", File.new("/etc/passwd") # copies attributes and content

File.write "test.tar", archive.to_s

Contributing

We welcome contributions of all kinds to this repository. For instructions on how to get started and descriptions of our development workflows, please see our contributing guide.