Preparation

macOS

$ brew install snappy
$ brew install autoconf automake cmake libtool
# This step may be needed if gem installation fails
bundle config build.snappy --with-snappy-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/snappy

Ubuntu

$ apt-get install libsnappy-dev -y
$ apt-get install libtool automake autoconf -y

Alpine

$ apk install snappy
$ apk install build-base libexecinfo automake autoconf libtool

Windows

Ruby Installer 3.0 and earlier:

(in MSYS2 shell)
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-snappy

Ruby Installer 3.1 and later:

(in MSYS2 shell)
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-snappy

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'snappy'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install snappy

Usage

Snappy-java format

require 'snappy'
Snappy.deflate(source)
# => Compressed data
Snappy.inflate(source)
# => Decompressed data

Hadoop-snappy format

Snappy::Hadoop.deflate(source)
# => Compressed data
Snappy::Hadoop.inflate(source)
# => Decompressed data

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request