Sasha Bee wrote: > We are just starting a new project and it is going to be a commercial > application. So we have a reasonable question now - how can we protect > our code? I have searched the web but found nothing really useful. Can > anyone suggest any solutions or ideas about code protection for Ruby? > > Thanks Sascha, I agree with James that its worth looking at making it a java app. May I also suggest you try www.rubyencoder.com which is a project I've been working on (disclaimer!). There are a few different ways of doing what you want, however you need to look at whether you really need to protect it. What kind of commercial application are you creating and what is the market for it? We created ours as we needed to install a legacy app on someones server and we were concerned about the code being open, but I think most people don't have these needs. Let me know if you need some help. Ade -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.