From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-11-10T09:19:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to time-limit a rails/ruby application

On Nov 9, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Warren Seltzer wrote:

> Some "Customers" just don't like to pay their contracting bills.   
> What's the best way for
> me to time-limit a ruby/rails application so it stops working if  
> they don't pay their
> bills?

Get better customers.

Write the large pieces of the program in C so they cannot use the  
power of Ruby to work around a small bit of C or Ruby that disables  
the application.

(ZenObfuscator might help, but it is not released.)

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