Comments on: Protecting Your Ruby Source Code for End User Applications http://seanmountcastle.com/2007/12/15/protecting-your-ruby-source-code-for-end-user-applications/ The musings of a programming enthusiast. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:19:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ryan Davis http://seanmountcastle.com/2007/12/15/protecting-your-ruby-source-code-for-end-user-applications/#comment-8170 Ryan Davis Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:26:03 +0000 http://seanmountcastle.com/2007/12/15/protecting-your-ruby-source-code-for-end-user-applications/#comment-8170 argh. stupid stripping of tags. Ruby2Ruby actually formats nicely. argh. stupid stripping of tags. Ruby2Ruby actually formats nicely.

]]> By: Ryan Davis http://seanmountcastle.com/2007/12/15/protecting-your-ruby-source-code-for-end-user-applications/#comment-8169 Ryan Davis Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:25:27 +0000 http://seanmountcastle.com/2007/12/15/protecting-your-ruby-source-code-for-end-user-applications/#comment-8169 I don't want to completely poo poo on the idea. I think it is a good one, but in a dynamic language like ruby there is almost ALWAYS a way around things like this. If ruby evals it, I can play with it: % ./ruby -e "require 'rubygems'; require 'ruby2ruby'; puts RubyToRuby.translate(Example)" class Example < Object def aMethod puts("Called aMethod") end def initialize puts("Hello from the Example class") end end I don’t want to completely poo poo on the idea. I think it is a good one, but in a dynamic language like ruby there is almost ALWAYS a way around things like this. If ruby evals it, I can play with it:

% ./ruby -e “require ‘rubygems’; require ‘ruby2ruby’; puts RubyToRuby.translate(Example)”

class Example < Object
def aMethod
puts(”Called aMethod”)
end

def initialize
puts(”Hello from the Example class”)
end
end

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