Code Protection

Rails
1

Hi everyone!

The project which I’m working on is going to be installed in several
clients side.
Do you know if it exists any way of protecting our code?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Monica

2

As of now I don’t believe there are any ways to obfuscate or compile
Rails
applications. This is why most people host the applications instead of
installing to client sites.

This has been discussed before… I suggest searching the archives for
some
really good discussions about this topic.

-Brian

3

Here is one method of compiling Ruby. I haven’t used it and would be
interested in hearing from anyone who has:

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html

Regards,
Dave

Information and Educational Technology
Kwantlen University College - 604-599-2120
“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole
earth.” --Bahá'u’lláh

[email protected] wrote on 22-05-2007 10:37:20 AM:

As of now I don’t believe there are any ways to obfuscate or
compile Rails applications. This is why most people host the
applications instead of installing to client sites.

This has been discussed before… I suggest searching the archives
for some really good discussions about this topic.

-Brian

4

I’ve used this several times; it’s a great way of packaging a
Windows-based Ruby app into a single EXE file. I’ve used this
capability as a selling point for getting Ruby into various places
that I’ve worked.

However, it’s not appropriate for “hiding” source code - anyone with
an editor can open the EXE file and find the source without
difficulty.

Regards

Dave M.

5

On 5/23/07, David M. wrote:

However, it’s not appropriate for “hiding” source code - anyone with
an editor can open the EXE file and find the source without
difficulty.

And even without an editor! From the obfuscation point of view, it
works just like a zip file…

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html#appdir

  • H
6

Thanks to everyone for your posts!!

7

No it will not “speed up” rails app. ruby2exe doesn’t create native
byte code, it merely compresses the files and copies ruby and other
required lib in one package.

On 5/23/07, Mohit S. [email protected] wrote:

capability as a selling point for getting Ruby into various places
On 23/05/07, David D. [email protected] wrote:

Kwantlen University College - 604-599-2120

for some really good discussions about this topic.
The project which I’m working on is going to be installed in several

–
rm -rf / 2>/dev/null - http://null.in

Dont judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try…

8

Has this been tried to see if it “speeds up” a Rails app (specially on
Windows)?

Cheeers
Mohit