rubyzip

Rubyzip is a ruby library for reading and writing zip files.

Important note

The Rubyzip interface has changed!!! No need to do require "zip/zip" and Zip prefix in class names removed.

If you have issues with any third-party gems that require an old version of rubyzip, you can use this workaround:

gem 'rubyzip', '>= 1.0.0' # will load new rubyzip version
gem 'zip-zip' # will load compatibility for old rubyzip API.

Requirements

Ruby 1.9.2 or greater

Installation

Rubyzip is available on RubyGems:

gem install rubyzip

Or in your Gemfile:

gem 'rubyzip'

Usage

Basic zip archive creation

require 'rubygems'
require 'zip'

folder = "Users/me/Desktop/stuff_to_zip"
input_filenames = ['image.jpg', 'description.txt', 'stats.csv']

zipfile_name = "/Users/me/Desktop/archive.zip"

Zip::File.open(zipfile_name, Zip::File::CREATE) do |zipfile|
  input_filenames.each do |filename|
    # Two arguments:
    # - The name of the file as it will appear in the archive
    # - The original file, including the path to find it
    zipfile.add(filename, File.join(folder, filename))
  end
  zipfile.get_output_stream("myFile") { |f| f.write "myFile contains just this" }
end

Zipping a directory recursively

Copy from here

require 'zip'

# This is a simple example which uses rubyzip to
# recursively generate a zip file from the contents of
# a specified directory. The directory itself is not
# included in the archive, rather just its contents.
#
# Usage:
#   directory_to_zip = "/tmp/input"
#   output_file = "/tmp/out.zip"
#   zf = ZipFileGenerator.new(directory_to_zip, output_file)
#   zf.write()
class ZipFileGenerator
  # Initialize with the directory to zip and the location of the output archive.
  def initialize(input_dir, output_file)
    @input_dir = input_dir
    @output_file = output_file
  end

  # Zip the input directory.
  def write
    entries = Dir.entries(@input_dir) - %w(. ..)

    ::Zip::File.open(@output_file, ::Zip::File::CREATE) do |zipfile|
      write_entries entries, '', zipfile
    end
  end

  private

  # A helper method to make the recursion work.
  def write_entries(entries, path, zipfile)
    entries.each do |e|
      zipfile_path = path == '' ? e : File.join(path, e)
      disk_file_path = File.join(@input_dir, zipfile_path)
      puts "Deflating #{disk_file_path}"

      if File.directory? disk_file_path
        recursively_deflate_directory(disk_file_path, zipfile, zipfile_path)
      else
        put_into_archive(disk_file_path, zipfile, zipfile_path)
      end
    end
  end

  def recursively_deflate_directory(disk_file_path, zipfile, zipfile_path)
    zipfile.mkdir zipfile_path
    subdir = Dir.entries(disk_file_path) - %w(. ..)
    write_entries subdir, zipfile_path, zipfile
  end

  def put_into_archive(disk_file_path, zipfile, zipfile_path)
    zipfile.get_output_stream(zipfile_path) do |f|
      f.write(File.open(disk_file_path, 'rb').read)
    end
  end
end

Save zip archive entries in sorted by name state

To save zip archives in sorted order like below, you need to set ::Zip.sort_entries to true

Vegetable/
Vegetable/bean
Vegetable/carrot
Vegetable/celery
fruit/
fruit/apple
fruit/kiwi
fruit/mango
fruit/orange

After this, entries in the zip archive will be saved in ordered state.

Default permissions of zip archives

On Posix file systems the default file permissions applied to a new archive are (0666 - umask), which mimics the behavior of standard tools such as touch.

On Windows the default file permissions are set to 0644 as suggested by the Ruby File documentation.

When modifying a zip archive the file permissions of the archive are preserved.

Reading a Zip file

Zip::File.open('foo.zip') do |zip_file|
  # Handle entries one by one
  zip_file.each do |entry|
    # Extract to file/directory/symlink
    puts "Extracting #{entry.name}"
    entry.extract(dest_file)

    # Read into memory
    content = entry.get_input_stream.read
  end

  # Find specific entry
  entry = zip_file.glob('*.csv').first
  puts entry.get_input_stream.read
end

Notice about ::Zip::InputStream

::Zip::InputStream usable for fast reading zip file content because it not read Central directory.

But there is one exception when it is not working - General Purpose Flag Bit 3.

If bit 3 (0x08) of the general-purpose flags field is set, then the CRC-32 and file sizes are not known when the header is written. The fields in the local header are filled with zero, and the CRC-32 and size are appended in a 12-byte structure (optionally preceded by a 4-byte signature) immediately after the compressed data

If ::Zip::InputStream finds such entry in the zip archive it will raise an exception.

Password Protection (Experimental)

Rubyzip supports reading/writing zip files with traditional zip encryption (a.k.a. "ZipCrypto"). AES encryption is not yet supported. It can be used with buffer streams, e.g.:

Zip::OutputStream.write_buffer(::StringIO.new(''), Zip::TraditionalEncrypter.new('password')) do |out|
  out.put_next_entry("my_file.txt")
  out.write my_data
end.string

This is an experimental feature and the interface for encryption may change in future versions.

Known issues

Modify docx file with rubyzip

Use write_buffer instead open. Thanks to @jondruse

buffer = Zip::OutputStream.write_buffer do |out|
  @zip_file.entries.each do |e|
    unless [DOCUMENT_FILE_PATH, RELS_FILE_PATH].include?(e.name)
      out.put_next_entry(e.name)
      out.write e.get_input_stream.read
     end
  end

  out.put_next_entry(DOCUMENT_FILE_PATH)
  out.write xml_doc.to_xml(:indent => 0).gsub("\n","")

  out.put_next_entry(RELS_FILE_PATH)
  out.write rels.to_xml(:indent => 0).gsub("\n","")
end

File.open(new_path, "wb") {|f| f.write(buffer.string) }

Configuration

By default, rubyzip will not overwrite files if they already exist inside of the extracted path. To change this behavior, you may specify a configuration option like so:

Zip.on_exists_proc = true

If you're using rubyzip with rails, consider placing this snippet of code in an initializer file such as config/initializers/rubyzip.rb

Additionally, if you want to configure rubyzip to overwrite existing files while creating a .zip file, you can do so with the following:

Zip.continue_on_exists_proc = true

If you want to store non-english names and want to open them on Windows(pre 7) you need to set this option:

Zip.unicode_names = true

Some zip files might have an invalid date format, which will raise a warning. You can hide this warning with the following setting:

Zip.warn_invalid_date = false

You can set the default compression level like so:

Zip.default_compression = Zlib::DEFAULT_COMPRESSION

It defaults to Zlib::DEFAULT_COMPRESSION. Possible values are Zlib::BEST_COMPRESSION, Zlib::DEFAULT_COMPRESSION and Zlib::NO_COMPRESSION

Sometimes file names inside zip contain non-ASCII characters. If you can assume which encoding was used for such names and want to be able to find such entries using find_entry then you can force assumed encoding like so:

Zip.force_entry_names_encoding = 'UTF-8'

Allowed encoding names are the same as accepted by String#force_encoding

You can set multiple settings at the same time by using a block:

  Zip.setup do |c|
    c.on_exists_proc = true
    c.continue_on_exists_proc = true
    c.unicode_names = true
    c.default_compression = Zlib::BEST_COMPRESSION
  end

By default, Zip64 support is disabled for writing. To enable it do this:

Zip.write_zip64_support = true

NOTE: If you will enable Zip64 writing then you will need zip extractor with Zip64 support to extract archive.

Developing

To run the test you need to do this:

bundle install
rake

Website and Project Home

http://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip

http://rdoc.info/github/rubyzip/rubyzip/master/frames

Authors

Alexander Simonov ( alex at simonov.me)

Alan Harper ( alan at aussiegeek.net)

Thomas Sondergaard (thomas at sondergaard.cc)

Technorama Ltd. (oss-ruby-zip at technorama.net)

extra-field support contributed by Tatsuki Sugiura (sugi at nemui.org)

License

Rubyzip is distributed under the same license as ruby. See http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt

mosegontar/rubyzip