That just moves the bytecode compilation to the server -- so you're back to my original point of generating the code statically. In fact it'd probably be worse,

That just moves the bytecode compilation to the server -- so you're back to my original point of generating the code statically. In fact it'd probably be worse, since there is no reason to compile MyScript.rb to bytecode more than once. It's like generating a dynamic page with Rails when all you really need is static, cacheable HTML.