From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2003-06-20T20:52:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Production Code with Ruby Use http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?DistributeARubyAppInASingleExecutable and after this (the code is still readable with an hex editor in the executable) you must encode the executable, for example with http://www.siliconrealms.com/armadillo.shtml which also deals with user key codes.