Encoding Ruby on Rails code?

Only example I have seen in the wild is Mingle from ThoughtWorks, which runs on JRuby, which I think they must have modified in some way to run the encrypted code.

http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/mingle-agile-project-management

I think they may have used something like this AOT compiler:
http://kenai.com/projects/jruby/pages/RailsAOT

This also looks promising:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/10/rubyencoder

Check out this answer for other ideas.
Can you Distribute a Ruby on Rails Application without Source?

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