How to unzip a file in Ruby on Rails?

Question

I\'m uploading a file to the server in Ruby on Rails

Normally, it\'s a text file and I save it in the model as a \'file\' field in a Submission ActiveRecord with oth

Answer 1

Extract Zip files in Ruby

Once you've installed the rubyzip gem, you can use this method to extract zip files:

require 'zip'

def extract_zip(file, destination)
  FileUtils.mkdir_p(destination)

  Zip::File.open(file) do |zip_file|
    zip_file.each do |f|
      fpath = File.join(destination, f.name)
      zip_file.extract(f, fpath) unless File.exist?(fpath)
    end
  end
end

You use it like this:

extract_zip(zip_path, extract_destination)