AOT compile rails apps

Hi,
I got a question regarding jruby’s aot compile feature. Is it possible
to ship an obfuscated rails app with it?

I tried compiling only my controllers but I get an error regarding
Invalid characters (see stacktrace).

Does someone know how to start an obfuscated rails app or can provide
a tutorial? At least ThoughtWorks mingle is shiping as obfuscated
project so it should be possible.

Thanks
Sam

First stacktrace

mb-2:jrubyc -p “” controllers/
Compiling all in ‘/Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/app/
controllers’…
Compiling controllers//activities_controller.rb to class controllers/
activities_controller
Compiling controllers//application.rb to class controllers/application


mb-2:cd controllers/
mb-2:controllers main$ ls -d .class | sed 's/(.).class$/mv “&”
“\1.rb”/’ | sh
mb-2:controllers main$ cd …/…/
mb-2:trunk main$ jruby -S script/server
=> Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick)
=> Rails 2.1.0 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000
** Starting Rails with development environment…
Exiting
/Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/app/controllers/application.rb:
215: /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/app/controllers/
application.rb:1: Invalid char \276' ('?') in expression (SyntaxError) from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/app/controllers/ application.rb:215:in load’
from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/
activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:215:in load_file' from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/ activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:354:in new_constants_in’
from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/
activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in load_file' from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/ activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:95:in require_or_load’
from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/
activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:60:in depend_on' from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/ activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:456:in require_dependency’
from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/actionpack/
lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:18:in define_dispatcher_callbacks' ... 38 levels... from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/railties/lib/ commands/server.rb:27:in require’
from /opt/local/share/java/jruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/
custom_require.rb:27:in `require’
from script/server:3
mb-2:trunk main$

second stacktrace

mb-2:trunk main$ java -cp .:/Users/main/Desktop/test/WEB-INF/lib/jruby-
complete-1.1.4.jar script/server
Exception in thread “main” /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb:2:in
require': no such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError) from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/ activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb:2 from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/ activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb:26:in require’
from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/
activesupport/lib/active_support.rb:26
from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/
activesupport/lib/active_support.rb:1:in require' from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/railties/lib/ commands/server.rb:1 from /Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/rails/railties/lib/ commands/server.rb:3:in require’
from script/server:3
…internal jruby stack elided…
from Kernel.require(/Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/
rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb:2)
from (unknown).(unknown)(/Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb:26)
from Kernel.require(/Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/
rails/activesupport/lib/active_support.rb:26)
from (unknown).(unknown)(/Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/
vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support.rb:1)
from Kernel.require(/Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/vendor/
rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:1)
from (unknown).(unknown)(/Users/main/repositories/testapp/trunk/
vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:3)
from Kernel.require(script/server:3)
from (unknown).(unknown)(:1)

Hi Sam. There’s more on this topic on this thread:
http://jruby.markmail.org/search/?q=manalang&x=0&y=0#query:manalang+page:1+mid:tyrnpi6h62342rhi+state:results

The answer is yes, you can compile your rails app (I’ve tested with the
app/
and lib/ directories fully compiled using jrubyc). You will need to
patch
ActiveSupport to get it to work though.

As far as obfuscation goes, I don’t know what TW is using to obfuscate
their
code (I think it’s something they wrote themselves).

Rich

Rich M. wrote:

Hi Sam. There’s more on this topic on this thread:
Search results for manalang - MarkMail
http://jruby.markmail.org/search/?q=manalang&x=0&y=0#query:manalang+page:1+mid:tyrnpi6h62342rhi+state:results

The answer is yes, you can compile your rails app (I’ve tested with the
app/ and lib/ directories fully compiled using jrubyc). You will need
to patch ActiveSupport to get it to work though.

I’m going to comment on that in the recent thread, but I think we should
fix load to look for .class files as well.

As far as obfuscation goes, I don’t know what TW is using to obfuscate
their code (I think it’s something they wrote themselves).

I believe TW ships a special LoadService (the logic behind require and
load) that decrypts their encrypted .rb source files.

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