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Quoth Ruby Maniac:
> On Sep 26, 7:50 am, MenTaLguY <men... / rydia.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:00:05 +0900,RubyManiac <rubyman... / gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > It would be nice if RubyScript2Exe was able to handle a passwordedZIP
> > > Lib rather than not.  This way any code placed into the .EXE would be
> > > encrypted and this would be useful.
> >
> > Have you thought about how the user would run such a package?  I mean, you
> > could give them the password, but...
> >
> > -mental
> 
> Password is kept within the EXE in an encrypted format hidden from the
> user.
> 
> Look folks, my goal is to distribute Ruby code in a manner that hides
> the source code from the end-user and encryption makes this useful.
> 
> Some of you might not mind giving away your source code but I rather
> like making people dig real hard to get my source code when I distro
> my apps.  Call me strange if you must but I am not a huge fan of Open
> Source for the sake of open source.  I prefer closed source that
> allows people to handle EXE's that contain no source or as in the case
> of Ruby encrypted source.

As Charles (of JRuby fame and fortune) mentioned earlier, JRuby can in many 
cases 'compile' ruby code down to Java .class files, which are hard to 
reverse to anything resembling ruby (or even java, for that matter). You 
should be able to make this work for your little problem.

-- 
Konrad Meyer <konrad / tylerc.org> http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/

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