From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-04-27T22:29:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Precompiling Ruby programs

On 4/27/05, John Wells <lists@sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> Lothar Scholz said:
> > Don't use the exe converters that other persons mentioned. In a previous
> > discussion
> > about this i posted a generic 5 lines crack patch for all of them. Use
> > google to
> > search the comp.lang.ruby group for this patch and the discussion.
> >
> > You must extend the ruby interpreter and change the internals of some
> > function names to do it. This will work, then use one of the
> > commerical copy protection systems like armadillo to protect the
> > source code from decryption.
> 
> So essentially, you're saying yes, it is possible, but man...not easy ;).
> 
> Wonder if this is a potential commercial product?  I know my company would
> be willing to pay for a supported option.
> 
There is a ruby to c converter, native binaries are much harder to
decompile. It probably doesn't do 100% but you may be able to
obfuscate a significant portion of your code.

> 


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