Deploying Ruby on Rails application

[Gauravbehl1]

Hi

i have developed a small apllication in ruby on rails .is it possible that i deploy it on the server with some binaries or compiled code.

I donot want to give the source code ,if it is somehow possible then direct me .

Thanks a lot.

[vgarcia]

Ruby code doesn't compile. You might be able to find some obfuscators to help make it more difficult to read your code but that's about it.

[Luke Redpath]

There is always RubyScript2Exe but I don't know if anybody has got that working with Rails.

[ezmobius1]

Yeah people have gotten rails apps to work with rubyScript2Exe. But the thing is that your source code will still be available to your client. rubyScript2Exe creates a compressed archive with everything you need to run you app but when it runs it unpacks your source code into /tmp and then your client could just grab the source there. So there isn't a real way to obfuscate your ruby code at this point. You could always host the solution yourself and put a box at the clients location and not giving them root on it.

[Fenrir2]

Will this be possible with Ruby 2.0 and Rite VM?? I don't mean real compilation, but to byte code which cannot be converted back to normal ruby code.

[ezmobius1]

Yes it will be possible. But the byte code could be re-assembled to ruby if you wanted it enough. It would be pretty tough though. There is a cool cgi script on YARV author's website here: http://www.atdot.net/yc/ You can paste your ruby code and see what the bytecode looks like for YARV

Cheers-

-Ezra