File compression

compress.rb

require "rubygems"
require "bundler/setup"
require 'zip/zip'

# Hard-coding the file names
file = "jruby-complete.jar"
zip  = "zip.zip"
if File.exists?(file)
  #Create a Zip object to put compressed data in
  Zip::ZipFile.open(zip, true) do |zipfile|   
    begin
      puts "#{file} is being added to the archive."
      #add a file to the zip object
      zipfile.add(file,file)
    rescue Exception => e
      puts "Error adding to zipfile: \n #{e}."
    end
  end
else
  puts "\nFile could not be found."
end