This 52 page free ebook is the Ruby on Rails Security Version 2. “Ruby on Rails Security Guide” aims at providing an up-to-date coding and configuration guide for the Rails community.
Book Description
Web application frameworks are made to help developers building web applications. Some of them also help you secure the web application. In fact, one framework is not more secure than another: If you use it correctly, you will be able to build secure apps with many frameworks. But Ruby on Rails has some clever helper methods. For example against SQL injection, so that this is hardly a problem.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Sessions
- Cross-Site Reference Forgery
- Redirection and Files
- Intranet and Admin security
- Mass assignment
- User management
- Injection
- Secure MySQL
- Server Monitoring