Brakeman
A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications (by presidentbeef)
Rubycritic
A Ruby code quality reporter (by whitesmith)
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| Brakeman | Rubycritic | |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 4 | |
| 6,906 | 3,289 | |
| - | 0.7% | |
| 8.1 | 6.3 | |
| 7 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| Q Public License 1.0 | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
Brakeman
Posts with mentions or reviews of Brakeman.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-17.
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First commits in a Ruby on Rails app
Brakeman - “Brakeman detects security vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails applications via static analysis”
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[Tool] An alternative to Brakeman for Security
My team and I released Bearer a couple of weeks ago, a newer open and free alternative to Brakeman to check your code for security and privacy risks. In addition to Ruby/Rails, we also cover your JS/TS code, which allows you to use a single solution for your whole Rails application.
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Brakeman VS bearer - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 10 Jul 2023
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Code Reviewing a Ruby on Rails application.
Brakeman is a static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications. It finds potential security issues in Rails applications by examining the Ruby code. Brakeman helps find and fix security holes before deploying your Rails app.
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4 Essential Security Tools To Level Up Your Rails Security
brakeman is another useful Ruby gem that is a static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications.
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How do you guys integrate automated security checks in your CI/CD pipelines?
You might find brakeman interesting: https://brakemanscanner.org
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Github Pre-commit Hook Setup In Ruby On Rails for maintaining coding standards and productive.
It’s assumed that you already have a Rails app and use Brakeman to keep your app secure and Rspec to run your test cases.
- Is this query vulnerable to SQL injections?
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Security Risks On Rails: Misconfiguration and Unsafe Integrations
Another great lib for this is Brakeman, which can be installed in a very similar process and gives you even more detailed reports:
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Fixing Just One False Positive in Brakeman
This is pretty easy to handle. In the case where a splatted array is the only argument to a method, we'll simply use the elements of the array as the argument list. (Check out the pull request here)
Rubycritic
Posts with mentions or reviews of Rubycritic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-17.
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First commits in a Ruby on Rails app
The third commit adds Rubycritic as a code quality static analysis.
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Improve Code in Your Ruby Application with RubyCritic
You should consider using RubyCritic if you want a single place to review code improvements for your project. Including RubyCritic in your development process will certainly reduce the time a development team spends working on technical debts. Most technical debts will be mapped out at development time.
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Best services and/or gems for automated generation of documentation, unit tests, and useful things of this nature
It's also possible to write unit tests in order to better understand or surface your assumptions about a legacy application. I'd also consider running rubycritic against legacy code, to see where the code smells and other hot spots lie.
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How to Improve Code Quality on a Ruby on Rails Application
RubyCritic: a gem that wraps around static analysis gems such as Reek, Flay, and Flog to provide a quality report of your Ruby code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Brakeman and Rubycritic you can also consider the following projects:
bundler-audit - Patch-level verification for Bundler
Rubocop - A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide. [Moved to: https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop]
Reek - Code smell detector for Ruby
Metasploit - Metasploit Framework
SimpleCov - Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites
Pronto - Quick automated code review of your changes
BeEF - The Browser Exploitation Framework Project
MetricFu - A fist full of code metrics
dawnscanner - Dawn is a static analysis security scanner for ruby written web applications. It supports Sinatra, Padrino and Ruby on Rails frameworks.
rubocop - A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.