Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] RubyCocoa macosx bundle without installed ruby ?

[Jonathan P. <jp...@dc...>]

On 22 Apr 2005, at 19:48, Remo Eichenberger wrote:

> i have two questions:
>
> - is there a way to build a rubycocoa-application WITHOUT  a 
> preinstalled ruby-runtime ? i mean a static compile of the 
> ruby-runtime.

I have made a script which can build a standalone rubycocoa 
application. It's designed to work with a non-Apple install of ruby 
(1.8.x), and copies over all the dependent libraries and bundles, as 
well as relevant parts of the ruby standard library into the app.

If there's interest, I'll tidy it up a bit and post it to the list.

> - is there a compiler or a obfuscator to build a rubycocoa-application 
> ?
>
> my goal is to build a application without the distribution of the 
> source-code :)

Ultimately, because ruby is a scripting language, an end user will be 
able to get at the source code (or close enough).

With development of a ruby bytecode interpreter like YARV, this will be 
harder, but it would still be possible to decompile back to some kind 
of source.