Running Ruby inside of Ruby (in the best way ever)

There are no good Ruby sandboxing options right now. You can sort of use $SAFE levels and taint checking, you can sort of use Shikashi, you can use the secure gem to run in a separate process, and you can, with much care, use chrooted and jailed virtual machines or Linux containers. None of these options met my exacting standards, meaning they’re not ridiculous. Therefore, I’m introducing…

RubyOnRuby!

An unholy amalgam of therubyracer’s V8 engine and emscripted-ruby to allow a truly sandboxed Ruby-on-Ruby environment.

Check it out on GitHub!

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