FASTLIB
FASTLIB provides a method to encode large directories of libraries into a single archive file. This is similar to capabilities like zip/ziprequire, except that it provides workarounds for __FILE__ references, arbitrary compression, and arbitrary encoding of file and name contents.
Usage
$ apt-get install fastlib
$ `gem env gemdir`/gems/fastlib-/lib/fastlib.rb dump lib/myarchive.fastlib lib/ lib/
$ ruby -r rubygems -r fastlib -I lib/myarchive.fastlib application.rb
Credits
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