attr_encrypted
Generates attr_accessors that encrypt and decrypt attributes (by attr-encrypted)
lockbox
Modern encryption for Ruby and Rails (by ankane)
| attr_encrypted | lockbox | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 13 | |
| 1,985 | 1,391 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 4.3 | 7.4 | |
| 7 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
attr_encrypted
Posts with mentions or reviews of attr_encrypted.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-12.
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DB Encryption
Alternative: https://github.com/attr-encrypted/attr_encrypted
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Application config in a single-row table
Using the attr_encrypted gem I followed the documentation’s short instructions to create a model called AppSetting (with a corresponding migration to create the app_settings table), along with an encrypted attribute/column for my API key.
lockbox
Posts with mentions or reviews of lockbox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-09.
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Advanced Usages of Devise for Rails
The first step is to install the gem with bundle add authtrail. Additionally, since you'll be storing user-identifiable information such as emails and IP addresses in your app database, it's highly recommended that you encrypt this data in production using a combination of Lockbox and Blindindex gems.
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Searching/Querying with Active Record Encryption
Your app queries an encrypted ActiveStash index, which says what rows in your existing database should be retrieved. It works with all the popular application-level encryption plugins for ActiveRecord, including ActiveRecord Encryption, and Lockbox.
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Life monitoring with org mode and telegram chat bot
Content is encrypted using https://github.com/ankane/lockbox default setup I've been considering adding optional end-to-end encryption as well, but am a bit afraid people might lose access to content forever if they lose access to keys.
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Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
lockbox and blind_index for email fields encryption
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Build an API in Rails with Authentication
Install lockbox and blind_index.
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Question on encrypted content
https://github.com/ankane/lockbox this is for the actual encryption of data
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Ten Ruby gems for Rails you should definitely know about
Lockbox
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Rails 7 introduces Active Record Encryption
I've been using the lockbox gem to encrypt specified attributes.
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How To Encrypt Fields in Ruby on Rails with Lockbox (Video)
I stumbled upon lockbox when looking for alternatives to attr_encrypted (It hadn't been updated for a while). It's really super & I'm pretty keen to share it :D
What are some alternatives?
When comparing attr_encrypted and lockbox you can also consider the following projects:
blind_index - Securely search encrypted database fields
strong_migrations - Catch unsafe migrations in development
rails_best_practices - a code metric tool for rails projects
money-rails - Integration of RubyMoney - Money with Rails
Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
Lograge - An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.
bullet - help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.
Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes
authtrail - Track Devise login activity
Sidekiq - Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby