From: Kevin Brown <Kevin.Brown@...2web.com>
Date: 2007-09-11T08:20:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Hiding RoR code in commercial application

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google: ruby obfuscator

I have no first hand experience with an obfuscator for Ruby, but for =
Java, they seem to work well. =20

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From: Marcin Raczkowski [mailto:mailing.mr@gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 9/10/2007 4:43 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Hiding RoR code in commercial application
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Ralph Klimski wrote:
> Is there any possibility to hide my RoR code in commercial =
application?
> Some kind of precompiling or something like that? It's neccessary if I
> want to sell my appliaction to commercial client and I don't want he =
see
> my code - to prevent to sell it by my client to another client, etc.
> What do you reccomend

write proper license, or mayby you are using GPLed libraries in your=20
commercial product and can't do that? :P

but seriously there's 2 ways to do that now, ruby2c (you have to pay for =

program that does this automatically)
compile to JavaVM code and run with jruby.

if you can't do that and you use only your own libraries, you can just=20
make license that prohibits reseling your product - simple and easy.

greets



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