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

[Orion Edwards]

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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