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lockbox
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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
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A guide to Auth & Access Control in web apps 🔐
https://github.com/varvet/pundit Popular open-source Ruby library focused around the notion of policies, giving you the freedom to implement your own approach based on that.
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Pundit VS Action Policy - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 2 Jul 2023
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Launch HN: Infield (YC W20) – Safer, faster dependency upgrades
Can you expand a little? Here's some technical background on what we're doing:
We have our own database of every version of every rubygems package alongside its runtime dependencies (like you see at https://rubygems.org/gems/pundit).
Then we parse your Gemfile and Gemfile.lock. We use the Gemfile to figure out gem group and pinned requirements (we run turn your Gemfile into a ruby AST since Gemfiles can be arbitrary ruby code; we use bundler's APIs to parse your Gemfile.lock). This gives us all of the dependencies your rely on.
Then we let you choose one or more package that you want to upgrade and the version you want to target (let's say Rails 7.0.4.3).
Now we have [your dependencies and their current versions], [target rails version], [all of the runtime dependency constraints of these gems]. We run this through a dependency resolution algorithm (pubgrub). If it resolves then you're good to upgrade to that version of Rails without changing anything.
If this fails to resolve, it's because one or more of your current dependencies has a runtime restriction on rails (or another indirect gem being pulled in by the new rails version). This is where the optimization part comes in. The problem becomes "what is the optimal set of versions of all your dependencies that would resolve with the next version of Rails". Currently we solve for this set trying to optimize for the fewest upgrades. As our dataset of breaking changes gets better we'll change that to optimizing for the "lowest effort".
Happy to elaborate.
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Authentication, Roles, and Authorization... oh my.
For authorization, I'm going back and forth with Pundit and CanCanCan
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Protect your GraphQL data with resource_policy
Expressing authorization rules can be a bit challenging with the use of other authorization gems, such as pundit or cancancan. The resource_policy gem provides a more concise and expressive policy definition that uses a simple block-based syntax that makes it easy to understand and write authorization rules for each attribute.
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Default to Deny for More Secure Apps
As an example of how to default to deny, consider a Ruby on Rails app (as we tend to do). The primary way a user interacts with the app is through API endpoints powered by controllers. We use Pundit, a popular authorization library for Rails, to manage user permissions.
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Permissions (access control) in web apps
https://github.com/varvet/pundit Popular open-source Ruby library focused around the notion of policies, giving you the freedom to implement your own approach based on that.
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YAGNI exceptions
PS If you do mobile / web work (or something else with "detached" UI), I find that declarative access control rules are far superior to imperative ones, because they can be serialized and shipped over the wire. For example, backend running cancancan can be easily send the same rules to casl on the frontend, while if you used something like pundit to secure your backend, you either end up re-implementing it in the frontend, or sending ton of "canEdit" flags with every record.
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Best practice for displaying info to different user roles?
You can use a combination of an authorization gem (https://github.com/varvet/pundit) and decorators (https://www.rubyguides.com/2018/04/decorator-pattern-in-ruby/) if you want to extend functionality based on their roles.
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Concerns about authorization when going in production
Use Action Policy or Pundit, and write tests for your policies. Authz is worth testing with near complete coverage.
What are some alternatives?
attr_encrypted - Generates attr_accessors that encrypt and decrypt attributes
CanCanCan - The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
blind_index - Securely search encrypted database fields
rolify - Role management library with resource scoping
strong_migrations - Catch unsafe migrations in development
Action Policy - Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails applications
rails_best_practices - a code metric tool for rails projects
Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
money-rails - Integration of RubyMoney - Money with Rails
Authority
Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
Declarative Authorization - An unmaintained authorization plugin for Rails. Please fork to support current versions of Rails