7 Security Tips
Security is important! Here I show seven different security flaws which are common to Rails applications ranging from mass assignment to CSRF protection. http://railscasts.com/episodes/178-seven-security-tips
Tag: rubyonrails
Railscasts – Model Versioning
If you need to keep track of a model’s history of changes and switch between versions, consider using the vestal_versions gem like I show in this episode. http://railscasts.com/episodes/177-model-versioning
Railscasts – Pagination with AJAX
Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery. http://railscasts.com/episodes/174-pagination-with-ajax
Working Effectively with Legacy Rails Code
Rails has powered Oakley.com, a site generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue for the past two years. It has 80 models, an equal number of controllers, 75k lines of code…and no tests. I will talk about how we’ve been chipping away at growing an effective, valuable test suite …
Security: What Rails Will And Won’t Do For You
There are a number of areas where rails can help web application developers ensure that their applications are appropriately secured (eg, CSRF protection and encoding of output) but there are others which can never really be addressed by frameworks alone. Additionally it’s very easy when developing an application to make …
Using/Abusing/Reusing Ruby and Rails
Over the past two and a half years, I have helped launch over 15 different Rails Content Management and E-commerce solutions. In recent months I was able to take a step back and work towards creating a truly reusable code base and platform. I’d like to present some of the …