From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-09-02T00:39:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeing the source

Michel Cabili wrote:
> Well, then I guess that we can't obfuscate the code with Ruby.
>
> It's not a necessity. It's just that I'm used to compiled languages in 
> wich, if the project isn't that complex, you basically give one file to 
> the user.
>
> <troll>
> If I really need this kind of feature I guess I could develop a library 
> in C that would encrypt all my '.rb' files into another file and decode 
> them when launching the application... or something like that.
> </troll>
>
> Thanks for your answers.
>   
I actually worked on something like this but I finally decided that it 
was hopeless. Since the encrypted Ruby code must be decrypted before 
being handed off to the Ruby interpreter, there's always going to be a 
way for a sufficiently-motivated user to get their hands on the 
unencrypted version of the program.