GZip output compression

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Hi rubists,

for my web projects I need gzip to compress the data before sending it to
the browser.
How can I do this?

And dear ruby folks,
this is why PHP is unfortunately in advantage over ruby: It has many built
in libs :slight_smile:

btw: is there any good tutorial on how to make my own C bindings? Yes, I’m
C newbie…

bye!
Dominik

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Hi rubists,

for my web projects I need gzip to compress the data before sending it to
the browser.
How can I do this?

It's usually implemented by the webserver itself.
See Apache's documentation for mod_deflate (Apache 2.x) or mod_gzip (1.3).

And dear ruby folks,
this is why PHP is unfortunately in advantage over ruby: It has many built
in libs :slight_smile:

btw: is there any good tutorial on how to make my own C bindings? Yes, I'm
C newbie..

The whole Programming Ruby book is online. Here's the chapter about
Extending Ruby:

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_ruby.html

Regards,

  Michael

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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 05:25:31PM +0900, Dominik Werder wrote:

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for my web projects I need gzip to compress the data before sending it to
the browser.
How can I do this?

(1) use the zlib library (look in raa.ruby-lang.org)
(2) open a bi-directional pipe to the gzip program and pass your data
through; see http://www.ruby-talk.org/69871

btw: is there any good tutorial on how to make my own C bindings? Yes, I’m
C newbie…

The “Pickaxe” book, IMO the definitive guide to Ruby (version 1.6 anyway),
has a good introductory chapter on this topic:
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_ruby.html

Regards,

Brian.

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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 05:25:31PM +0900, Dominik Werder wrote:

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for my web projects I need gzip to compress the data before sending it
to the browser.
How can I do this?
(1) use the zlib library (look in raa.ruby-lang.org)
(2) open a bi-directional pipe to the gzip program and pass your data
through; see http://www.ruby-talk.org/69871

Thank you all for your comments!!

I overlooked the zlib on RAA, many thanks!

Dominik