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= w32evol_ruby -- w32evol obfuscation engine wrapped in Ruby
== Table of Contents
== 1. Introduction This is not a virus nor does it contain a virus.
This is a Ruby wrapper for the obfuscation engine {w32evol}[https://bitbucket.org/martinvelez/w32evol].
The {w32evol}[https://bitbucket.org/martinvelez/w32evol] obfuscation engine has a command line interface. This wrapper allows you to use the obfuscation engine within your Ruby scripts.
== 2. Dependencies
== 3. Installation
=== Rubygems: You might need to use sudo. gem install w32evol_ruby
=== Not Rubygems:
== 4. Usage
=== Example 1 This example is found in the examples directory. #!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'w32evol'
ARGF.binmode input = ARGF.read
engine = W32Evol.new
output, errors, status = engine.obfuscate(input)
puts "INPUT:", input.inspect puts "STATUS:", status puts "ERRORS: ", errors puts "OUTPUT:", output.inspect
== 5. Development
Author:: {Martin Velez}[http://www.martinvelez.com] Copyright:: Copyright (C) 2012 {Martin Velez}[http://www.martinvelez.com] License:: GPL[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html]
=== Source Bitbucket[https://bitbucket.org/martinvelez/w32evol_ruby/src] is hosting this code. http://bitbucket.org/martinvelez/w32evol_ruby/src
=== Issues and Bug Reports Provide feedback, get help, request features, and reports bugs here: https://bitbucket.org/martinvelez/w32evol_ruby/issues?status=new?status=open
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We found that w32evol_ruby demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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