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) ?

Why particularly do you want to stop them from reading the code? You should note that the tools listed below will not stop someone really determined as they generally contain a copy of the source code within them. The most they will do is obfuscate the code and make it difficult to get to. — david4dev, Dec 08 '10 at 20:18
Duplicate of [Is it possible to compile Ruby to byte code as with python?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1972388/is-it-possible-to-compile-ruby-to-byte-code-as-with-python) — Andrew Grimm, Dec 09 '10 at 02:27

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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

Hope this helps

edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

Community

answered Dec 08 '10 at 09:45

nathanvda

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 08 '10 at 10:06

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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

answered Dec 08 '10 at 10:06

Raghu

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