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The format class knows the guts of the RubyGem .gem file format and provides the capability to read gem files
Reads the named gem file and returns a Format object, representing the data from the gem file
Path to the gem file
# File rubygems/old_format.rb, line 37 def self.from_file_by_path(file_path) unless File.exist?(file_path) raise Gem::Exception, "Cannot load gem file [#{file_path}]" end File.open(file_path, 'rb') do |file| from_io(file, file_path) end end
Reads a gem from an io stream and returns a Format object, representing the data from the gem file
Stream from which to read the gem
# File rubygems/old_format.rb, line 53 def self.from_io(io, gem_path="(io)") format = self.new(gem_path) skip_ruby(io) format.spec = read_spec(io) format.file_entries = [] read_files_from_gem(io) do |entry, file_data| format.file_entries << [entry, file_data] end format end