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

Orion Edwards
2010-01-23T22:40:44Z

If you''ve ever run reflector over a .NET dll, you''ll realise
that you''re pretty much shipping the source to every C# or VB.net app
you write -
so going along with this I''d recommend just putting the ruby files in a
zip, renaming the zip to .blah, and calling it a day

On 24/01/2010, at 1:02 AM, David Lake 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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