On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:33 +0900, Edgardo Hames wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to bzip2 a file from Ruby without invoking the unix > app? I want to create a bzipped tarball without using any external > programs so my app can run using anything but plain ol' Ruby. I'm > already using archive-tar-minitar to create the tarball but now I need > a way to compress it. I don't know of any pure ruby implementations of the bzip2 algorithm. I suspect that if there's any libraries out there, they'd bind libbz2... at which point it's also not pure ruby. Aria