On 18 oct, 19:13, Adam Penny <adam_pe... / hotmail.com> wrote: > Kless wrote: > > Which is the best way to uncompress a 'tar.gz' file since Ruby? > > I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you, but wouldn't that be > > tar xvzf [filename]? Better using Ruby: ---------------- tgz_file = Zlib::GzipReader.new( File.open(file, 'rb') ) Minitar.unpack(tgz_file, 'tgz_file') ----------------