I need an easy way to take a tar file and convert it into a string (and vice versa). Is there a way to do this in Ruby? My best attempt was this:
file = File.open("path-to-file.tar.gz")
contents = ""
file.each {|line|
contents << line
}
I thought that would be enough to convert it to a string, but then when I try to write it back out like this...
newFile = File.open("test.tar.gz", "w")
newFile.write(contents)
It isn't the same file. Doing ls -l
shows the files are of different sizes, although they are pretty close (and opening the file reveals most of the contents intact). Is there a small mistake I'm making or an entirely different (but workable) way to accomplish this?