Streaming zlib processing for Ruby

drbrain | Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:52:18 GMT Posted in Ruby Earlier today I checked in a patch that adds streaming zlib processing to Ruby. This allows you to process a stream without needing to allocate space to hold the entire result. To add the streaming support I changed #inflate and #deflate to accept a block. A handful of other methods (such as #finish) accept a block as well due to the internals