From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-03-03T22:22:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling a Ruby app

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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:09 AM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

> Sharagoz -- wrote:
>
>> My second concern is protecting source code.
>> I realize that everything that can be compiled can also be decompiled,
>>
>>
>
> That is not entirely true. Or rather, it can be "decompiled", all right,
> but not into anything resembling the original source code.


Actually closer than you might think:

require 'rubygems'
require 'ruby2ruby'

class Foo
  def bar
    a = 1
    b = 2
    a + b
  end
end

puts Ruby2Ruby.translate(Foo)

produces:

class Foo < Object
  def bar
    a = 1
    b = 2
    (a + b)
  end
end

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