Guys, Thought you might be interested in what may become a viable way to protect your Rails code from reverse engineering in the future. Two of my (brief) write ups on the subject. http://thoughtmining.blogspot.com/2006/09/jruby-excelsior-jet-rails-ip.html http://thoughtmining.blogspot.com/2006/09/protection-of-ruby-on-rails-apps-via.html I own a copy of Excelsior, so my next free-time project is to compile JRuby with it and see how I fair. The possibility is pretty exciting...I''ve had to pass on a few Rails projects because we couldn''t afford to distribute our IP along with the product, and the application was not feasible in a hosted environment. I''ve used Excelsior quite a bit in the past, and not only did it protect my code, it sped it up _significantly_. As an afterthought...I wonder how well an Excelsior-compiled JRuby interpreter would fair against c ruby? That could be a very interesting comparison. Food for thought. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---