I find lots of rubyists get quite snotty about this concept. However, if you must, I'd suggest that you look into jrubyc as an option. It spits out Java bytecod

I find lots of rubyists get quite snotty about this concept. However, if you must, I'd suggest that you look into jrubyc as an option. It spits out Java bytecode that can't be trivially converted back to anything meaningful.