15:36 <nakilon> I wonder how he did invoke the scripts; IIRC to forget current bulder env you have to wrap it around smth like Bundler.with_clear_env{}

16:37 <Hammdist> hey all I want to stuff some small files in an archive and be able to read individual files from it at runtime from a Ruby script. however I don't want any gem dependencies. simplest way?

16:38 <Hammdist> for my purpose, it is OK if I have to scan the whole archive once and load it into memory or something

17:01 <aesthetikx> Hammdist are these like YAML files or raw data or text?

17:02 <aesthetikx> if it is static and unchanging, you could possibly read it into simple ruby data structures once and then use Marshall to write it to a file, and then read it back in the script. You could even throw that data into a __DATA__ section at the bottom of your ruby file.

17:03 <o0x1eef> There's also "zlib" from the stdlib (Zlib::GzipWriter, Gzip::GzipReader)

17:05 <aesthetikx> o0x1eef do you have a githu

17:06 <o0x1eef> Yep https://github.com/0x1eef

19:49 <havenwood> Hammdist: If they're Ruby files and you want to be fancy, you can even save their YARB bytecode and eval that so you don't have to parse it again. If you're just wanting plain data zipped and saved to disk with a File.write, +1 zlib.

19:50 <havenwood> Also not a bad idea to zip Ruby binary too.

19:51 <havenwood> An example of saving some zipped Ruby binary to disk, then unzipping and evaling later. https://gist.github.com/havenwood/465eb969ef1fb817e4ad493701b0020e

19:52 <havenwood> I dunno why I didn't do a more straightforward zip. 🤷

19:52 <havenwood> I agree with aesthetikx it'd be nice to know what you're saving. Some serialization types have builtin ways to save to disk.

19:54 <havenwood> I usually use zlib unless I need something like brotli in particular.

19:54 <havenwood> (on the zipping front)

21:09 <o0x1eef> Having so much fun writing code tonight

22:12 <havenwood> o0x1eef: Love that feel.

22:29 <o0x1eef> :D