Re: [PhillyOnRails] jruby question

[Flinn Mueller <theflinnster@gmail.com>]

Thanks all, that's kind of what I expected to hear.  Hopefully XRuby  
will pick up that slack.  I'm just wondering what ThoughtWorks is  
doing about that with Mingle.  Maybe they don't care.


On May 24, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Cliff Moon wrote:

> As far as I know ruby -> bytecode compilation isn't quite "there"  
> yet.  However, if you're really paranoid and feel like digging into  
> the jruby interpreter, it is possible to serialize the AST of a  
> program.  This serialized AST could then be encrypted and then  
> decrypted where you deploy the code.  But in all honesty, that  
> sounds more than a little pointless since somewhere someone is  
> gonna wanna run the code and have access to an AST.
>
> The best way to keep your source code safe is to not give it to  
> anyone and leave it on a server.  If you must distribute I know  
> there are some rails packaging tools out there that might be a  
> better fit.  Not sure if any of them support obfuscation, though.
>
> Michael Bevilacqua-Linn wrote:
> > They way I understand it, the standalone war will package up your  
> > rails directory structure, along with Jruby, the rails libraries,  
> > and some other magic stuff that makes it work.
> >
> > But since war files are just zip files with metadata in special  
> > places, you can open it up yourself and poke around.
> >
> > MBL
> >
> >     I don't come from a Java background, so I'm curious to see what
> >     deployment options JRuby brings to Rails.  Can anyone tell me if
> >     packaging a Rails app into a WAR file or JAR (if that's even
> >     supported) gives my source code any reasonable safety from prying
> >     eyes?  Is a WAR file only going to compress and package the Rails
> >     app, or are we packaging intermediate or byte code that would  
> > make it
> >     (a little) harder to view my apps source code?  I'm curious  
> > because I
> >     heard the news that ThoughWorks recently started distributing an
> >     Rails app for JRuby.
> >
> >     Thanks --flinn
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