Obfuscating Rails app on MRI Ruby / JRuby for a en

Question

For a enterprise customer, who will be running our Rails app on their servers, we don't want to give them the source code of a Rails app.

Is it possible, using MRI Ruby or even JRuby, to:

1. Obfuscate the source code
2. In case of JRuby, make the Rails app into a .jar/.war (so it's obfuscated and byte-code)
3. In case of MRI Ruby, package the Rails app into an EXE

Any thoughts on if this is possible?

Answer 1

i've used RubyEncoder. it is crossplatform and very flexible. if i remember correctly it works only with MRI. check if it fits your needs.