[Ironruby-core] Is it possible to generate DLLs?

Shay Friedman
2010-01-23T14:04:37Z

Good idea.

However, I''d remove the file check before the production build (use #if
DEBUG or something similar).
Having it on the client computers generates 2 main problems:
1. Performance - you''re doing one or multiple file system calls in
vain.
2. Security - one can figure out about this little mechanism and put a
malicious foo.rb file in the correct folder, so your application uses and
executes it.

Thanks for sharing,
Shay.
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:02 PM, David Lake <lists at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:

> Bassel Samman wrote:
> > Actually, never mind.  Looks like precompilation is not supported yet.
> > Googling shows they may work on it post 1.0.  On the other hand, one
of
> > the developers came up with a workaround that will work for us since
our
> > needs are minimal.  We are just going to zip and encrypt for now and
we
> > can unzip and run in memory from a small C# app.  Also, if someone
> > really needs a DLL you can use rubydotnet.
>
> I''ve found it easiest to put Ruby scripts into embedded resources
in the
> DLL then read them out from there. You can optionally encrypt them as
> part of the build process and decrypt them before running them so that
> they cannot be spied upon. I use this system a lot (with Ruby.Net, but
> it will work fine with IronRuby too).
>
> As an added aid during development, the code that I use to get a
> resource ''foo.rb'' from the DLL will do a quick check on
disk at location
> <dll_location>\<dll_name> for a plain-text version of
''foo.rb''. If it
> finds one, it loads it in preference. This way you don''t need to
rebuild
> the DLL during development - only when ready to release.
>
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