From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-09-03T00:38:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeing the source

Michel Cabili wrote:
> Hello. I'm new to Ruby (and also to scripting languages).
> 
> I'd like to know if, since Ruby is a scripting language, there's a way
> to hide the code when deploying an application. I'd users to be unable
> to see the source.
> 
> Is there a solution for that?

There's a couple for JRuby that have been briefly mentioned:

- JRuby can load .rb files from within a .jar file. Since most people 
don't know a .jar is just a zip file, many would never think to look in 
there.
- JRuby can also compile most .rb into Java .class files. From there 
it's nearly impossible to get decompiled output that resembles either 
Java or Ruby.

- Charlie