Reading the uncompressed GZIP file size in Ruby without decompression - Closer to Code

There are cases where you have a compressed GZIP file for which you want to determine the uncompressed data size without having to extract it.For example, if you work with large text-based documents, you can either display their content directly in the browser or share it as a file upon request depending on the file size.Luckily for us, the GZIP file format specification includes the following statement:.