I need to make a .tar.gz out of some directory. Anyone knows any example code of this?
A combined tar and gzip will probably be better:
The "z" flag works with gzip, to either create a tar/gzipped archive:
tar -czvf archive.tgz files/
...or decompress a tar/gzipped archive:
tar -xzvf archive.tgz
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
Index of Classes & Methods in zlib: Ruby Standard Library Documentation (Ruby 3.1.2) might be helpful.
-Pratik
I was thinking about using Ruby to do this. 
Just for the record: Solution for making a tar.gzip might just be these two libs/modules or Ruby: Arhive::Tar::Minitar (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruwiki/) and Zlib library.
Although I didn’t find any good examples for making this. When I do start coding this, I’ll post back some code here…