Degzipper

Rack middleware to inflate incoming Gzip data from HTTP requests.

Degzipper is a Rack Middleware. That means that you can use it the same way that you use any other Rack middleware. For example, to use in a Sinatra application I might do this:

require 'sinatra'
require 'degzipper'

class MyApplication < Sinatra::Base
  use Rack::Session::Cookie
  use Degzipper::Middleware
end

For a Rails application this is handled for you automatically, just add the gem to your Gemfile.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'degzipper'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install degzipper

After you install Degzipper to your Rails application, give it a try. Simply gzip a file like so:

gzip my_file.json

And then send the gzipped file data to your route via a PUT or POST CURL request:

curl -X PUT --header 'Content-Encoding: gzip' --data-binary @my_file.json.gz http://example.com/myroute

Where before you would have been greeted with an ArgumentError like:

ArgumentError (invalid %-encoding (o?0??+8???ʶd?H?"C??ԥ5<??Y"??H6?????N??߽???Έ???Z?.?????0$ٸߏk0??%4??Vwg*????9?#?7FF?J??D?N

Now your application will recieve the data inflated as if it was never gzipped!

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Credit to relistan for the original gist