Not exactly what you want, but look at ruby2c (rb2c)
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=rb2c



On Sunday 13 May 2001 21:23, you wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I come from a Python (and later, Perl) background and decided
> yesterday that I would learn Ruby in the next two months. As I
> understood so far, Ruby does not do bytecode compilation, am I
> right? Is this coming/planned/whatever? Sometimes I just want my
> source code file hidden/obscured, for fancyness and packaging.
> Is there a way to do this in Ruby.
>
> Btw, statements that have value in Ruby is one thing I prefer
> over Python's.
>
> Regards,
> Steve

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