The format class knows the guts of the ancient .gem file format and provides the capability to read such ancient gems.

Please pretend this doesn’t exist.

Class Methods

Creates a new old-format package reader for gem. Old-format packages cannot be written.

Instance Methods

A list of file names contained in this gem

Extracts the files in this package into destination_dir

The specification for this gem

Raises an exception if a security policy that verifies data is active. Old format gems cannot be verified as signed.