From: Richard Lyman <lymans@...>
Date: 2005-08-21T02:37:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Protecting commercial ruby code with public/private key encryption

On 8/20/05, dr <druid.bpg@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can use Exerb (http://exerb.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html) fow
> windows platfirm to distribute client side Ruby applications. The main
> idea of Exerb, AFAIK, is to dump parsed syntax tree and store it inside
> executable.
> p.s. This will be wonderful if official Ruby interpreter can do same
> thing by itself.
> Python, BTW, can store compiled programs in *.pyc files, and load it
> when original source file is not changed.
> 

(Unless it has changed recently) Please understand that if you open an
exerb generated exe file in a text editor you can scroll to a section
where your program is visible as plain text.

-Rich