A convenient wrapper for the zlib standard library that allows compression/decompression of strings with gzip.

Methods
compress decompress deflate inflate
Public Class methods
compress(source)

Compresses a string using gzip.

# File lib/lore/facets/zlib.rb, line 16
  def self.compress(source)
    output = StringIO.new
    class << output
      def close; rewind; end
    end
    gz = GzipWriter.new(output)
    gz.write(source)
    gz.close
    output.string
  end
decompress(source)

Decompresses a gzipped string.

# File lib/lore/facets/zlib.rb, line 11
  def self.decompress(source)
    GzipReader.new(StringIO.new(source)).read
  end
deflate(string, level=DEFAULT_COMPRESSION)

Deflate a string.

# File lib/lore/facets/zlib.rb, line 33
  def self.deflate(string, level=DEFAULT_COMPRESSION)
    Deflate.deflate(string, level)
  end
inflate(string)

Inflate a deflated sting.

# File lib/lore/facets/zlib.rb, line 28
  def self.inflate(string)
    Inflate.inflate(string)
  end