bcrypt-ruby VS Ruby on Rails

The BCrypt Gem

Instead, you should use something like the bcrypt gem to prompt users to enter a password to encrypt/decrypt their saved passwords.

These are the three steps to get your passwords protected. I hoped this helped in clearing up any confusion you may have had about encrypting passwords! If you missed it, here is the link to bcrypt!

BCrypt is a hefty gemfile that uses hashes and salts to encrypt passwords in your database. Hashes are a fixed-length value that will always produce the same output for the same given input. The output can be a 32-bit or 64-bit number. What BCrypt does, is add a salt to this hash, which is an additional 29-bit number that generates a new salt every time you login with your password. This method makes it incredibly difficult to hack into the database to reveal the actual password to a user.

BCrypt Gem Open Source Documentation

Once a hash is generated, we need to be able to store it to be compared for authentication purposes. The source code of the BCrypt Ruby Gem actually offers great insight into how this is performed in Rails:

The bcrypt gem to improve password security in tandem with the ActiveRecord has_secure_password feature

Github Documentation

We will be taking advantage of the bcrypt gem. Make sure you include this in your Gemfile and check out the GitHub if you want to learn more about the process of garbling a password (hashing and salting).

[0] is a my favorite demonstration of it.

[0]: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...

Here's a real life example: Imagine a Ruby on Rails app on which a team of developers are working. The code is hosted on GitLab and all the work is coordinated using GitLab issues. In other words: For every commit, there's an associated issue and the issue number acts as a sort of primary key for documentation, time reporting and so forth. This convention has a few advantages, most notably the ability to easily learn more about how, when and by whom features were implemented as well as how this implementation came to be.

Ruby on Rails is regarded as one of the best ruby frameworks. It was the primary language in developing big projects such as Twitter and helped the language boost the community. Often referred to as “Rails,” Ruby on Rails is a web development framework with an MVC control structure and currently running its 6.1 version. The 16-year-old language has dramatically influenced the web development structures and managing databases, web pages, and other components on a web application.

In Rails 7.1, a new option _instance_methods is introduced, allowing developers to opt-out of the automatic generation of instance methods for enums. When enum is defined with _instance_methods: false, Rails will no longer generate methods like pending?, processed?, etc.

Rails isn't super opinionated about database writes, its mostly left up to developers to discover that for relational DBs you do not want to be doing a bunch of small writes all at once.

That said it specifically has tools to address this that started appearing a few years ago https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/35077

The way my team handles it is to stick Kafka in between whats generating the records (for us, a bunch of web scraping workers) and and a consumer that pulls off the Kafka queue and runs an insert when its internal buffer reaches around 50k rows.

Rails is also looking to add some more direct background type work with https://github.com/basecamp/solid_queue but this is still very new - most larger Rails shops are going to be running a second system and a gem called Sidekiq that pulls jobs out of Redis.

I'm looking forward to see what extractions from this will land on rails. For example: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/50454

Here is what strict_loading does (source):

Kamal is a wonderfully simple way to deploy your applications anywhere. It will also be included by default in Rails 8. Kamal is trivial, but I don’t recommend using it on your development machine.

Here's the GitHub milestone I've based this article on — https://github.com/rails/rails/milestone/87