How to prevent my users to read my Ruby code?

Question

I want to prevent my users to read my ruby code.

Are there some efficient tricks to do that (apart from executing my code on a server) ?

Answer 1

With jruby you can pack your code in a jar, which makes it less accessible. You've got some options:

• do it yourself
• use rawr to package standalone apps, even with UI
• use warble for packing rails apps

Hope this helps

Answer 2

There are gems like Tar2RubyScript, RubyScript2Exe which help you distributing your ruby code. You can read http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/distributingrubyapplications/rails.html for more information