gzip a file in Ruby

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At the start of the year I looked into how to better compress the output of a Jekyll site. I’ll write up the results to that soon. For now, here’s how to gzip a file using Ruby. Enter zlib Contained within the Ruby standard library is the Zlib module which gives access to the underlying zlib library . It is used to read and write files in gzip format. Here’s a small program to read in a file,…

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