Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Append String as a File to a Zip

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Demonstrates how to append text data as a file within a zip archive. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

#  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
#  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

zip = Chilkat::CkZip.new()

zipPath = "c:/temp/test.zip"

#  Initialize the zip object, which also sets the FileName property to the path of the zip to be created.
zip.NewZip(zipPath)

#  Append a file that will contain the string "Hello World";
fileContent = "Hello World"
pathInZip = "txtFiles/helloWorld.txt"
zip.AddString(pathInZip,fileContent,"utf-8")

zip.put_FileName(zipPath)
success = zip.WriteZipAndClose()
if (success == false)
    print zip.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Success." + "\n";