From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T22:35:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Hiding source code

On 10/9/07, Shai Rosenfeld <shaiguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have written an app in Ruby for my company and I was the only one
> > that had acess to read/execute it. I've hired someone to help me with
> > daily work and that includes having him execute a set of those Ruby
> > scripts.
> >
> > Is it possible to allow him to only execute the code and not give read
> > permission? All boxes are running Linux.
>
> i may have overlooked something but what is wrong with using chmod?
>
> http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uchmod.htm
>
> -rwx--x---  1 mksm youandfriendgroup  7264 2006-12-07 13:42
> rubyscript.rb
>
> in the example above only you have all Read-Write-eXecute permissions,
> and you're friend only has eXecute permissions.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
Ruby scripts are not ELF/Mach-O/PE/"whatever your system uses"
binaries. Your friend needs to be able to read the script to execute
it.
>