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Asked: 2026-05-15T00:33:29+00:00

I was wondering if anyone knows of rubyzip alternatives for Ruby, that can handle

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I was wondering if anyone knows of rubyzip alternatives for Ruby, that can handle various formats in particular zip / rar / 7z?

I know of libarchive, but it’s not complete for my purposes ( it’s a good gem thou). (To clarify, libarchive – won’t work for me – cause I need to be able to run in on Windows. ( Yeah I know sucks to be me)) Libarchive actually works on Windows, but still not for my purpose (7zip & rar formats support)

Right now I end up running system commands to the os, but I’d like something OS independent, and capable of handling those formats – reading and writing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok for anyone else interesting as of now if you need more than rubyzip you can use libarchive, but if you need to support both Windows & *nix – your best option is to go with a third-party binary. It seems that sending system commands to 7zip is easier. Also you can roll out a plugin and include binary static versions your favorite archiver. I’m going with 7zip since it’s gnu and lgpl.

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